A New Story

Sasuke Retrieval; Everyone Dies

Silver, White and Grey, ninja of the Leaf, crashed through the forest in search of their mission's end. A mission that had already been delayed by the attack on Gaara of the Sand. Branches snapped and the trees fluttered by in a blur, their view of the world around them stood still while they rushed ahead endlessly.

Time was short and Arisu, a ninja tracker, knew they could not wait for the Sand ninja to catch up. "I'm over here, try and keep up!" She shouted back to her fellow Leaf ninja, resting her hand against a tree to catch her fleeting breath to the pace she had set. "The ninja of the Sand will have to find their own way if they plan on helping." She gritted her teeth before pushing ahead once again.

"Do not expend yourself so readily, we have an enemy still to face!" Fuma the slowest of their group, lugged his legs ahead like lead weights. "I am injured and so is my team, do you really believe this is the best course of action?"

Arisu galloped alongside her wolf hound. "What?! I can't hear you!" Stopping once more she shouted to the loudest extent of her voice. "Keep up!" Then panting with her wolf hound she held a whisper to her breath. "Kiba, I promise we won't be late to save you." Her nostrils flared and still further to the distance Katsumi, Arius's hound, perked her ears to the unnatural sounds coming from the forest. "Get moving!" she yelled, her voice pitched with distress.

The earth underfoot vibrated lightly to the deep impacts ahead. The air shimmered ever so slightly to the scent that was smelt. The bird calls and the animals that fled in terror, they all spoke alarm to the senses of a ninja tracker. Despite what her instincts told her she could not runaway but confront the danger, because Arisu knew.

"That is where my cousin Kiba is"

...

Amoroto sat flat down on the ground, hiding himself behind a tree while he listened to the fight he excluded himself from. His injuries weren't physical or mental, they were almost spiritual. "I wonder if this is the cost of inspiritment, when the one I enchant with my mystic songs isn't someone I personally care for." He lifted his hands up to the light as they quivered despite the warmth of the day. "I feel... exhausted, as if at any moment I might lost the energy to live." His voice creaked as he swallowed down the pain in his throat, the tears welling up in his eyes to the hurt that coursed through his body. Physically there was nothing wrong, emotionally... "I feel like I'm dying"

Still, listening to the sounds of battle, his back pressed up against the tree as he let his mind focus ahead to their concerns rather than his own. He wondered how he might be able to help.

Into the battle his mind drifted, detaching himself from his pains and woes.

Argies, Hakari and Lee battled their foe with unshaking determination. In less than seconds, Argie's retreat was filled with sharp bone piecing the air of where he had been. Covering Argies retreat Hakari braced herself against the attack, her crystal shield cracking to the drumming of bone that was harder than her rock. From the side of the Sound ninja, Lee the green hurricane of the Leaf phased into existence to slam a kick to their enemies face. Even before his foot could make contact to the side of their foe's head, bone grew and protruded, spiked and defensive, and yet still Kimimaro was pushed back.

"Don't worry" Lee bounced around on the spot, nursing a sore foot he nevertheless came between their foe and his friends. "I will not let Kimimaro hurt you." Inspecting the bottle in his hand, his face a slight sheen of red. He turned the bottle of special medicine upside down to his lips but nothing came out "It doesn't matter, I will still win because I have the power of youth and my friends at my side!" He throw away the empty bottle with a proud boast of a smile on his face, with empty hands he continued to fight.