Fairy Tail: The Guild Hidden in The Leaf: Book One

Battle of jinchuriki

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Team 7 had successfully left the village and was in pursuit of the three Sand ninja, who intended to unleash the Shukaku upon Konoha. As Gajeel was injured, the three of them were moving at a much slower pace than normal and it wasn't long until they sensed their pursuers. Knowing that they had to get Gajeel in position before the demon began to take over, Kankuro made the necessary sacrifice and fell behind to slow down the pursuing Leaf ninja.

As Team 7 was making their way through the forest outside the village, the found themselves under attack by a barrage of needles. Thanks to Bickslow's quick reactions, the needles instead impaled themselves into a lion made of ink, leaving the team unharmed. "Laxus, I can handle him. This will let the three of you continue on to Gajeel" suggested Bickslow, waiting for the leaders call.

"Fine. Just catch up with us later Bickslow" determined Laxus, as the rest of the team continued on. Kankuro tried to stop them, but another allowed Laxus, Freed, and Evergreen to get away. Laxus had explained to the team that is the One tail got free, then that thing would destroy most of Konoha itself before the Leaf could mount any sort of response. With the Leaf already under siege, repelling both Orochimaru's forces and a demon would be near impossible. Their only hope was to get to Gajeel before h fully unleashed the demon.

Bickslow was now facing Kankuro, doing what he felt he must in order for his friends to get through and stop Gajeel. Kankuro released the puppet from his back and sent it towards Bickslow with a poisoned blade at the ready. Bickslow easily blocked the assault, creating another ink tiger in front of him. Kankuro had his puppet move only for it to be attacked by two more ink tigers from each side. The puppet revelied to Hidden blades and cut the tiger and the attacked Bickslow after they were destroyed, Bickslow did not move and the puppet's blade impaled Bickslow, only for him to burst into a puddle of Ink. Bickslow made a quick hand seal and Three giantish Ink snakes were maee and constricted around the puppet and crushed it into pieces.

Kankuro swore under his breath as Bickslow had gotten past his puppet. However, Kankuro had a second puppet that Bickslow had forgotten about from the preliminary exams. Coming from behind an unsuspecting Bickslow, Kankuro's second puppet opened its chest cavity and grabbed Bickslow, trapping him inside. Normally, Kankuro would use his first puppet's blades to stab the inside of the puppet, but Bickslow had reduced that puppet to nothing but scrap. He then decided to use a poison gas ball that he had installed to poison Bickslow inside the cavity.

"Ninja art: Super Beast Scroll!" called out Bickslow as Ink Lions cam from outside of Kankuro's puppet and tore it to shreds showing the one cought was also an ink clone. Bickslow was panting as that last attack did require a large amount of chakra to use, but now Kankuro was puppetless. Bickslow unshethed his ninjaťo and held it to his troat. In a silent saying of give up now. Bickslow had pretty much bested him.

Temari and Gajeel were hurrying as best as they could to get into a position where they could unleash the Shukaku upon Konoha, but give their troops enough of a warning so that they wouldn't be killed as well. As such, they had planned to go around Konoha, to the top of the plateu that the Hokage monument was carved into and they would unleash the Shukaku there, effectively sandwiching Konoha's forces between the Sand/Sound forces and the Shukaku. However, because of the activity of the Leaf's patrols, scouting the area for any additional enemies that may approach the village, the two of them were forced to take a wide detour away from the village and around to the back. As a result, the team that had been sent to intercept them was rapidly approaching and Kankuro had failed to slow them down. What made it worse was that the demon inside Gajeel was beginning to force its way out.