7: Sand vs. Sound

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Thanks to Shine's directions, it took Temari less than five minutes to find Shikamaru.

She told Shoto and Momo to stay hidden--and they didn't miss the contemptuous dismissal in her tone when she said it either.

They stayed between some trees.

But looking around one, Momo saw the boy in question, Shikamaru, standing on a tree branch, but that wasn't what arrested her attention.

But looking around one, Momo saw the boy in question, Shikamaru, standing on a tree branch, but that wasn't what arrested her attention

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To her utter horror, there was a creature standing in front of him. She looked like a demon: horns, dark skin, black markings like paint over it. She had a flute. But she also had red hair and arms and legs like a human...so Momo concluded it must be a ninja.

"Shoto," she said, slipping into informality, "do you see that?"

Shoto looked, and he blinked in wide-eyed horror also.

Shoto looked, and he blinked in wide-eyed horror also

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"What is that?" he said finally.

"It has to be the Ninja from Sound," Momo mumbled.

Camie was right, they thought.

Then Temari landed on the branch with a blast of wind and sent the demon woman hurtling into a different tree, where she?...it...? promptly disappeared from view.

Momo didn't like that, because now they didn't know where she was.

Temari seemed to be talking to the boy, Shikamaru, who didn't look that pleased to see her at first.

Shoto and Momo only heard a few things she said more loudly, like "Excuse me? Did I ask for your opinion?"

Then she spread out her fan and bit her thumb.

What happened next made no sense to either of them.

A weasel popped out of nowhere, then a huge gale of wind that would have probably outclassed Inasa Yoarshi spun over the whole area.

Shoto had just enough time to react by freezing a huge wall and then shell over both of them, while Momo covered her head, before they heard pretty much every tree in the area splintering and falling down. Some logs hit the ice, but they weren't heavy enough to crack it.

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