Yokai Mates

attack on the leaf

Chapter Twenty-One: attack on the leaf

The explosion ripped through the arena causing the crowd to go into a panic.  No one could tell where the explosion came from.  The two Akatsuki on the large bird swooped down dropping someone off at the hokage box to keep the three kages busy as his task was to obtain the three tails Jinchuriki.  The other Akatsuki landed before the one tailed Jinchuriki and the Tengu.  A sharp whistle escaped the long blonde's lips.

"They weren't kidding when they said the one tails was a half demon." stated a man with long blonde hair.  Both Gaara and Sasuke stood in defensive position knowing full well that the man standing before them was a member of the Akatsuki because of the usual cloak that all the members wore.  Sasuke wasn't bound to leave Gaara and let the Tanuki knew that his mate would do the same in his position.

"Who in the hell are you?" Gaara asked with a snarl.

"Deidara of the Akatsuki.  I hope that you like art because mine is a bang!" replied Deidara as he opened up his hands allowing what looked like clay birds to fly quickly towards both Gaara and Sasuke.  Deidara held up a single finger causing the clay birds to explode on contact with the two ninja.

Meanwhile up in the kage box......  Sarutobi, Yagura, and Rasa were facing against an Akatsuki whom looked like a puppet.  The puppet introduced himself as Sasori before he unleashed a bridge of weapons at the three kage.  Both Sarutobi and Yagura avoided getting hit.  But, Rasa wasn't so lucky as he went down hard.  This forced Sarutobi to use his Earth Release: Earth Style Wall  jutsu to protect Rasa until someone could get the injured Kazekage out of harms way.  The third Hokage and former Mizukage stood in defensive position while Zabuza quickly got Rasa to safety.  The two kage knew they could handle this Akatsuki member.

"I have to remember to keep the bear demon's body in tack as much as possible.  I never had a true demon as a puppet." stated Sasori as the Onikuma heard him loud and clear causing the bear demon to snarl at the puppet.

"You will find out that I am not going to be easy prey." snapped Sarutobi snarling at Sasori.

"Nether the less..........  I will have both you and the three tails in my possession before this day is done and over with." replied Sasori as he moved to attack the remaining two kages.

At that same moment, Naruto found himself facing against two Akatsuki whom where arguing with each other at whom gets to take the Kitsune on.

"This is why I hate being your partner at times Kakuzu.  Let me just make him a sacrifice for Lord Jashin!  I will make sure not to fully kill him." stated a man with white hair and reddish brown eyes.  His darker skinned partner wore a mask covering his face as all you could see was his eyes.

"Fine Hidan make sure to try not to do a lot of damage." sighed Kakuzu.  Hidan laughed wildly as he whipped his scythe towards Naruto.    The Kitsune managed to avoid the weapon as he lored the two Akatsuki away from the civilians whom was still fleeing.

"First you have to catch me!" Naruto replied as he made several Shadow Clones as they all split up into different directions.

"Which one is the real one?" asked Hidan.

"How am I supposed to know?" growled Kakazu as he opened up his cloak revealing four masks as his body split apart into four different creatures whom each wore a mask.  The two Akatsuki along with the four creature masks went chasing after a Naruto clone.  Naruto felt more confident with facing one of them in a one to one battle.