A New Way of Ninja, (Naruto)

23: The Heroes Come Up With a Plan

Before she left to find Gaara, Shine helped the girls find Hinata and Neji.

They were holed up in a different hollow of the ground. 

They were both overjoyed to see their old friends--and surprised to see them still so young.

That explanation went quickly.

Shine asked Neji if anyone knew about his curse mark being gone yet.

"No," he said. "Amazing, for 3 years we've kept it hidden... Things are changing so fast these days, I wonder if the clan would be ready to hear it."

"We'll have to think of that later," Shine said. "Are you two willing to help us out?"

"We're assigned here," Hinata said. "But...we're on guard duty..."

"Oh, about that," Shine said, "I can help you with the clones. If you could manage to get all of your agents into a certain area of this camp, there's something I can do to keep the clones from coming in and out, with stopping the actual ninja."

"You can?" Hinata said, excitedly.

"Yes, but I have to do it fast." Shine glanced at Wally, who nodded.

"We'll surround this little dell we're in," Shine added. "Tell them that if you stay in this area, the clones will not come in, once you've killed the ones who are, no doubt, already here. Babe?"

"Any time." Wally took her by her waist. "We'll be back in a flash." He winked.

"Ugh..." Bakugo rubbed his neck in annoyance.

They vanished into thin air next to Temari.

"What is she going to do?" she asked.

"She calls it a barrier." Momo held up her hands. "A protective line marked by their authority, it keeps out enemies. It doesn't last forever though, if the attack it too hard... However, it will keep out any small threat for quite a while. I've seen it stop all kinds of attacks at home."

"Just like one of those DnD spells," Camie said.

[Contrary to what you might think, though, I came up with the idea long before I ever heard of DnD. It's based on the Christian idea of being surrounded by protection; all of Shine's powers are based on Christian teachings of some kind. Turns out that a lot of DnD is also based on those ideas, just tweaked to be magical.]

Temari's seeing that they already had so many ideas to help was enough to almost make her cry, but she would not have shamed herself by doing so at a time like this.

Hinata did look immensely relieved also. "That's good news... You're already helping us so much. But you always do that... Uh...who are your two new recruits?"

"Camie and Bakugo," Momo said. "Well, Bakugo is his last name, but he prefers to go by that. Camie prefers her first name."

"Camie Utsushimi." Camie bowed, though not very well since she wasn't used to it. She also tried to do the ninja hand shape...and she did it almost right.

Hinata returned the gesture, though with confusion.

"Katsuki Bakugo." Bakugo nodded. He didn't bow.

"Are they strong?" Neji asked.

"Stronger than anyone else here, punk," Bakugo said.

"He's also very humble," Dabi said. "But the little s--- can put up a good fight. I can testify to that personally."

"Camie is an illusion user," Momo supplied, "if you happen to have any enemies that would...you know...work on. And it won't be something they can break, like a Genjutsu."