Fox In The Leaf

Battle at the Valley of the End

Kakashi was running through the forest following his personal summon Pakkun, who was following the scent of the rookies. He was going at top speed in order to reach them before something happened. After running for a bit of time he ran into something that he wasn't really expecting. A forest made of a white stone-like substance. Both him and Pakkunj stooped at the edge of it as Kakashi pressed a hand on one of them. He instantly recognized what it was. "Bone?" he didn't have time to think about it much when Pakkun spoke.

"Kakashi up there."

Kakashi looked down at Pakkun to see he was pointing a paw upwards. Following the path of where he was pointing, he saw a few people on one of the high branches of one of the bone constructs. He jumped up to where they were and saw that it was the retrieval team as well as the extras that followed after them. "Well nice to see you all here."

Everyone jumped when they heard a new voice and turned around to see it was Kakashi and Pakkun.

Shikamaru was the one to speak "Kakashi-san what are you doing here?"

Kakashi eyed smiled as he pointed to Ino, Hinata, and Karin "I came to make sure that no problems came up with these unauthorized extras. Although I am impressed that they were able to catch up to you so quickly since they had a few days head start on you three."

Choji perked up at this and began to speak "you can thank Naru...mmmphh!"

Ino had slapped her hand over Choji's mouth to make sure he didn't say anything about Naruto giving them a ride. 'I don't know if Kakashi knows about Naruto being here with us but I am not taking any chances.'

Kakashi did notice the slip about Naruto and wondered how he actually helped them get here faster. 'Maybe he gave them a ride on his back heh heh.' he had no clue how close to the truth he was at that moment. He then noticed the lack of said person. "Where's Naruto?"

Ino mentally cursed 'damn it.'

Shikamaru pointed into a direction as he spoke "he went after Sasuke. He left before we could get here."

Kakashi nodded his head at this before looking behind him and eye-smiled "well it's good to know you can at least try to keep up."

Ino looked to where he was looking and saw a pair of new arrivals "Forehead?!"

Sakura landed right behind Kakashi and had her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath. Behind her was Haku making sure that she was ok. She would admit that training with Haku had helped her out a lot but she was still lacking when it comes to stamina. "Hey …..pig."

Ino put her hands on her hips as she asked "what are you doing here?"

Haku was the one to answer "we have come to help out in any way we can. Kakashi-san had just arrived from a mission some time ago and in the process of leaving the village, he came across us and informed us about the situation. We offered our services and he accepted as he said it would help make things go smoother."

Pakkun took a sniff in the air and chose to speak up. "Don't want to rush things but I smell rain coming. If we don't hurry, we could lose their scent."

Kakashi looked to Pakkun and nodded "then let's move." before he could begin to move out he was stopped for a second by Neji

"We are coming with you."

Kakashi looked to everyone there and could see that they were all in the same boat with this decision. He would have told them to go back to the village and let him handle it but they looked like they would not abandon their friend. 'Their will of fire burns brightly…..Guy must never know I thought anything REMOTELY close to his youth montage.' he nodded to everyone and they began to jump at high speeds towards Naruto and Sasuke.