Rabbit Princess [Gaara] [2]

☾ 19 ☽

Tsukiko kept her eyes ahead of them, feeling a huge surge in the Chakra ahead of them. She knew that it belonged to Naruto, to the Kyuubi, but she wished it was somehow Gaara's. Maybe he was still passed out, Tsukiko assured herself as she tried to fasten her face before remember that she had Sakura and Chiyo with her as well.

"Oh?" Tsukiko whispered when the Chakra suddenly diminished back to nothing. She furrowed her eyebrows and wondered if Naruto was done fighting Deidara and was about to use her Byakugan when Usajii halted her.

"No Dojutsu, Usahime," Usajii warned her. "You do not have any Chakra to spare, control yourself or you'll faint," Tsukiko nodded quietly.

"We finally caught up," Sakura said as she, Tsukiko and Chiyo landed next to Naruto and Kakashi. Tsukiko immediately looked around.

"S-Sakura-Chan..." Naruto stammered. "T-Tsukiko-Chan..." But the white-haired girl was already looking around the place up and down for Gaara.

"You did a good job finding us," Kakashi told them, peering at Tsukiko's eyes to see if there was still her Mangekyo Sharingan but it seemed like she had managed to turn it off.

"We felt a huge tremor a few minutes ago," Tsukiko replied quietly, still looking around. "Naturally, we had to follow it..."

"You guys... You got him, huh?" Naruto said. Sakura nodded and so did Tsukiko, who finally spared him a glance as well. Naruto averted his eyes.

"It looks like you two are still having some trouble here," Chiyo said. But Tsukiko could not see the enemy anywhere around them, not even with much Chakra.

"Unfortunately, yes..." Kakashi said, looking down. Chiyo looked at Tsukiko's frantic eyes and then looked at Naruto.

"What happened to Gaara?" Chiyo voiced the question on Tsukiko's mind. Tsukiko immediately turned to look at Naruto, who caught her eye before lowering it, then looking to the side.

"Gaara!" Tsukiko said, noticing two of Naruto's clones holding onto Gaara. She was about to move to that direction but loud sounds of Kunai clashing overtook the silence of the forest.

Tsukiko turned to look up and saw Deidara rushing back to the clearing where they were, landing next to his torn clay bird that laid there. She was surprised to see Team Guy chasing him but Kakashi hurried forward.

"Watch out!" Kakashi shouted. "He's a long-range fighter who attacks with explosives!"

Team Guy jumped over and watched Deidara tear off some of the clay with his mouth before jumping forward. Tsukiko glared at him as she fixed herself too, putting a hand on her sword to see if she needed to fight this man, too.

"I'll show you my ultimate creation," Deidara said, as he continued to chew onto the clay, and then he started to swell up.

"Oh, no," Neji shouted. "Everyone, get away...!" Team Guy moved to jump away from the blast but it occurred too quickly, and it was too big to dodge.

But then it just vanished off, leaving silence and a large dust cloud. And then, Tsukiko saw it, Kakashi had used Mangekyou Sharingan's Kamui ability. She turned to look at Kakashi in surprise that he was using that.

"Kakashi Sensei, are you alright?" Naruto asked as he caught Kakashi, who fell back from the exhaustion of the Jutsu he had just used.

"What the heck did you do?" Sakura said, shocked.

"I blew the explosion into another dimension," Kakashi replied, trying to calm down his heavy breathing, and Tsukiko stared at him in concern and confusion.