Desert Rose (Shinki x ChoCho) fic

Dangerous Situation

"Araya can you use your technique to try to dig for the puppet exactly here!" Shikadai ordered

"Yes, on it!" Araya used his puppet master technique to summon a lizard like puppet to burrow into the dunes to retrieve their objective

Araya's puppet came up almost instantly with their prized possession they were looking for in his puppet's mouth

"Checkmate!" Shikadai shouted 

"But can it really be that easy," Inojin asked

"Inojin don't jinx us ! Chocho shouted at him

Just as she finished her scolding of Inojin, the mysterious mystery man showed up again "It's him?!" Shikadai exclaimed

"You know him?" Shinki asked not really careing what relationship they had but thinking he had to take down who ever scutinized his mission.

"It's the man who slaughtered the whole restaurant, that delayed us this morning..."

"hmph.." Shinki was on his guard now.

"What's your plan then leader?" 

"We will be lucky to hold up against him, even long enough to retrieve the puppet, survival is the most imperative.Shinki I will need your complete iron guard!" Shikadai stressed.

"You have something I am also after children!" the cloaked man stated finally recognizing them from back at the restaurant.

"Like Hell will we give it to you!" Shikadai shouted

"Well if your not going to give it then I will have to take it by force!

"Here he comes Shinki!"

Shinki used his iron sand as a shield against the cube-like projectiles being pelted against them.

"AGH! "

Everyone was shocked by the cloaked man's power, if it was enough to give Shinki a difficult time, then for sure they would have a bad time!

Shikadai's strategy was to buy enough time for Shinki to attack this Deepa creep offensively yet not even Shinki's "Black Iron Fists" was effective against Deepa's supernatural abilities. 

"This isn't looking good! "Shikadai stated

"Tell me something I don't know, your the strategist think of something! and it better be fast! " Shinki told Shikadai not making the situation any better.

Shinki's iron sand wall was slowly crumbling away trying to deflect the attacks at them and he was struggling to keep it from collapsing entirely.As a large cube missle was shot at the wall it broke through Shinki's defenses and hit Araya, and Yodo. 

"Damn It!" Shinki cursed to himself (Araya and Yodo you two better be okay!)

"Chocho!" Right she knew exactly what move Shikadai wanted her to use on the man without even having to verbalize it.

(They fight in such synchrony I'm slightly impressed, this is the legendary Ino-Shika-Cho every one talked about) Shinki thought to himself

"Human Boulder!" Chocho transformed her body into a living breathing boulder.

(It's the same move she used in our fight, but.. to do a frontal attack on that man now is suicidal) She bravely jumped up out of the safety of Shinki's iron sand wall & used human boulder to charge directly at the man.As she made a mad dash towards him, Deepa was about to shoot her with more of his projectiles, when Inojin destracted him from in the air by flying on his animate bird painting jitsu.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" Inojin said trying to get the man's attention only making him shoot the projectiles at him instead which caused Inojin to be hit out of the air.

Then when Chocho was about to strike the man in her human boulder form, suddenly Deepa made a fist and his arm turned into metal and stopped Chocho in her tracks, then he smacked her away.

"NO!!" Shikadai shouted as he used his shadow possession jitsu to attempt to stop Deepa's from leaving with the puppet.

But he broke out of it easily and attacked Shikadai leaving him out of commission along with braking through  what was left of Shinki's iron wall, making Shinki collapsed in exhaustion as his iron sand cloak fell off his body.

(No I can't fail...I can't fail you father..) Shinki thought as he gained enough strength for one more desperate attack, he formed a giant iron sand feather and shot it at Deepa's retreating form

Striking him in the back braking the puppet in the process. The man looked unfazed at the broken puppet and decided to leave without it..

 everyone was injured and Shinki was now on the brink of blacking out. 

"Shinki! Don't worry help is on the way! Chocho shouted at him, even though she was injured her human boulder form help protect her from the brunt of the force""Cho...cho?" (he hated anyone seeing him in his weakest state, especially the girl he defeated..it was irony at it's worst)
"Shinki! stay with me!" Chocho yelled out to him.  

"Yes...I'm trying....here you will need this, he handed her another scroll with a different map so she could find the sand village from their location."

"Will do, hang on my darling prince!" 

"Prince?" surprised at her choice of words

"Oh, well maybe I watch too many romcoms but I'm kinda like your knight in shining armour right now and your the Prince.."

"No...I'm no prince though I'm the son of the Kazekage..regardless..can you..please...just go get my uncle Kankuro, Chocho!" 

"Ahaha...yeah sure I didn't mean to make light of this situation! I am off!"

...Thank...you..

"You're welcome Shinki!" 

With those last words he let himself fade to the blackness of unconsienceness 

"Sleep well my Prince."