General POV
"MINA!"
Naruto's rage rose to the surface when he saw the kunoichi struggling against the blonde Akatsuki member. He summoned multiple shadow clones and prepared a rasengan. His target: Sasori. When he got the opportunity, he charged Deidara immediately. The cloaked shinobi saw Naruto headed his way and threw a bomb that he had been preparing with his free hand at the Jinchuuriki. The spider bomb latched itself onto him and exploded. Deidara made a quick getaway with the young kunoichi in tow but not before losing an arm in the process to Kakashi's Sharingan.
The young Jinchuuriki began to pursue Deidara before Kakashi held him back and pulled him away from Sasori's scorpion tail. The Jounin glanced at Naruto and noticed a strange chakra surrounding his former student. A pair of ears took shape and a tail followed along. His facial features took on the form of the fox spirit itself, growing large and sharp canines and his whiskers becoming more defined. Naruto lost his sense of self. The only thing that was on his mind was to kill his enemy and retrieve his mate.
"So this is the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit." Sasori said.
The Nine-Tails Cloak. Kakashi thought.
Naruto immediately charged Sasori, decimating any and all attacks that the puppet master sent his way. Kakashi watched his former student brutally beat his opponent into the ground, shattering his 'body.' The possessed boy realized that he lost sight of his opponent and growled in frustration, searching for any signs of the enemy or his teammate. A nearby clone hunched over in pain, complaining how hot the demon's chakra was. Kakashi thought for a moment on how to get his teammate back on track. He pulled out a seal that had been given to him by Jiraiya and recalled the Sanin's parting words.
Should the situation call for it, use this.
Jiraiya presented Kakashi the seal after warning him that the Nine Tails would eventually make an appearance. He had also been warned that if that was the case then the demon would have to be dealt with in its one-tailed appearance in order to stop him from going on a killing spree. Unfortunately for the Jonin, a mindless boy with a mission sprouted a second fox tail, which prompted him to produce the seal. He sent a shadow clone in his place in order to get the seal onto Naruto safely. When the possessed shinobi was distracted, Kakashi's clone successfully placed the seal onto his forehead, causing the boy to freeze. The demon's chakra slowly faded and Naruto began to return to normal, falling to his knees and slumped over.
"Are you calm, Naruto?" Kakashi asked.
Naruto remained silent.
The Land of Rivers
"The girl put up quite a fight, didn't she?"
Sasori observed his partner's current condition. It was to be said that he was quite banged up and lost an arm in the process, though, Deidara said that was because of Kakashi's Sharingan eye. Ah, well. It mattered little. They had achieved their initial goal. Now they would wait for the powerful Nine-Tails to make its pursuit of his teammate. It wouldn't be long.
"She did." Deidara replied with grim satisfaction.
The two men quickly and silently returned to the hideout with their prisoner in tow.
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Mina's POV
I came to my senses after what seemed like hours later. I found that my wrists were bound with chakra suppressors and my ankles chained to the wall. I was no worse for the wear. I had a few broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and a sprained ankle. I was surprised that I didn't have any more critical injuries. I couldn't really see much around me, which meant that I was more than likely in the Akatsuki Base. I remembered being strangled by Deidara before I passed out. I had no memories of events afterwards.
Suddenly, I was punched in the stomach and slammed into the dirt wall. I slowly picked myself up to try and face my assailant, only to get smacked across the face. I was weak but I had no intention of showing that weakness. Hell, I had a stubborn streak that stayed with me throughout my childhood, which often got me into trouble and beaten by my parents. I picked myself up again.
"Quite a stubborn one, aren't you, hn?"
Deidara. I know that voice from anywhere.
I took another punch, to the jaw this time, and slammed against the wall once again. I tried to get up once more, despite hitting my head really hard against the wall. I was close to losing consciousness again. My vision was blurring and darkness was creeping upon me again. I could see him leering at me. Despite the fact that he was only five years older than me, I still thought that he was a dirty old man.
