Hinata followed Team Seven from a distance. Her white Byakugan focused directly on their movements, chasing the black cloaked Kankuro and Gaara. Gaara didn't move however, forcing him to be carried by Kankuro. Team Seven quickly caught up.
Kankuro said something, probably cursing. Hinata drew her bow. Saul-kun told her not to kill them... Right? But this guy used a puppet.
Her white eyes penetrated the wrapping. She recognized it as a different puppet than the one he used before against Lee. This one had many more blades and weapons. It was a lot more deadly. Kankuro had switched it up again - this time his real body on the outside while the wrapping contained the puppet.
No matter what kind of trickery he pulled however, he could not fool her Byakugan. She released the arrow at the perfect moment.
"Shit! Gaara, get it together!"
Kankuro had to throw Gaara off of his shoulder, just in time to dodge some thrown Shuriken. The bandages fell away, revealing another Kankuro gritting his teeth as he dodged as well.
"I know all your tricks now! You can't fool me!"
Naruto rushed in, swinging a fist at the partially bandaged Kankuro.
Sasuke shouted, noticing something wrong with his Sharingan, "Wait! Naruto!"
'Kankuro' opened his mouth, revealing a small nozzle. He had installed a flame thrower in the throat of this puppet. Kankuro had been itching to try this out on somebody in combat, and the bullheaded Naruto made a perfect target.
"Go die!"
An arrow shot out, landing onto the center of the puppet before anyone could react. The body of the puppet completely exploded, sending the head that was spitting flames spinning into the forest. A fire started, spreading throughout the greenery.
"You bastard!"
"Heh. It was worth a shot."
Kankuro raised his hands up in surrender.
"Alright, I'm done fighting. Feel free to knock me out, tie me up, whatever you deem necessary. You all heard what that guy said, right? I'm valuable as a hostage. I don't see any more point in risking my life fighting you guys. I know when I'm outmatched."
The black robed ninja glanced to the side at the chuckling Gaara, who was grinning madly, in fear.
"Just take me away from this guy, alright?"
Gaara went quiet, glaring at him.
Sweat poured down his forehead. This was bad, really bad, "Oi, you guys have to knock him out quickly! Otherwise-!!!"
Unlike Canon, Gaara did not have enough time to calm down while the Sand siblings bought time. The pressure from their hot pursuit, the fear of getting chased down and shot at from where he couldn't see. It destabilized him. His eyes had turned completely white now. His chuckling had turned into mad laughter.
"Shit!"
"Kill. I'm going to kill you ALL!"
Kankuro turned to flee, but... Gaara's right arm turned into a monstrous arm. It extended out many meters to grab the retreating Kankuro and pulled the man towards him.
"Brother. I heard what you said just now. You told them to knock me out, right?"
Kankuro forced a smile.
"O-of course, Gaara! I said it for all of our sakes! Don't-"
Gaara squeezed him tighter, forcing his breath to cut off and his eyes to bulge out.
"I've wanted to do this to you for the longest time... My dearest brother~
!"Then the team heard his bones crack under the pressure. In the very next moment, they snapped. Kankuro was literally crushed to a pulp by Gaara's grip. Blood and crushed organs oozed out from every pore and orifice. He died, instantly. The monster threw his mangled corpse into the nearby spreading fire.
His white, pupilless eyes now stared at the group.
"You all are next."
Sasuke activated his cursed seal. The black patterns spread across more than half his body, but he forced it further. They continued to spread, all over his skin, until they covered his entire body. The red eyes of his Sharingan spun ominously.
"Naruto. This guy's dangerous. Get Sakura out of here, understand?"
Naruto grinned. "I've grown much stronger, Sasuke! Believe it! I'll take care of Sakura-chan, but..." He summoned a bunch of shadow clones, "That doesn't mean I can't help with the fight!"
Sasuke grinned as well, his hand now crackling with lightning. He had grown to rely on this idiot more than he could have ever previously imagined.
"Alright then, Naruto! Show me what you can do!"
"CHIDORI!!!"
"KUAGH!"
Sasuke's lightning encased hand pierced through the sand protecting him completely, wounding Gaara once again. It reminded him of that brown haired woman within the Tournament, who also used lighting. Was he going to be killed this time? Would mother finally feast on his blood?
A single tail of sand shot out at Sasuke. The red eyes of his Sharingan spun and he dodged instantly with lightning quick movements.
Gaara's body was completely taken over at this point. His form was cloaked in sand, and then a gigantic beast stood in-front of them. It roared in anger, pain, and malice. The very ground before them turned into a whirlpool, grinding into sand and gathering it. Sasuke leaped back.
"NARUTO! WE HAVE TO LEAVE! WE CAN'T DEAL WITH THAT THING!!!"
"NOT YET! I CAN HANDLE THIS!!!"
Naruto threw Sakura to him. The pink haired woman blushed and looked up to Sasuke, who carried her in his arms, but he didn't pay her any attention.
Naruto bit his thumb and drew a pattern onto his palm.
"GAMABUNTA! I NEED YOUR HELP!"
The summoning Jutsu was unique in the sense that the greater the chakra used, the more powerful what you summoned would be. This was because when you sent Chakra into the summoning contract, the beasts on the other side would receive the Chakra sent by the summoner. If the summon could not handle the chakra given, then the summoning Jutsu would fail.
In all of mount Myoboku, very few Toads could even handle the amount of Chakra offered by Naruto right now. The idiot poured in almost his entire reserve of Chakra this time. What was almost all of the current Naruto's entire reserve? Nothing much, just probably around ten times a few Kage Level Ninja.
A colossal titan frog was summoned, the same size as Shukaku, the one tail. The gigantic beasts clashed, visible from miles away.. The earth shook and rumbled.
Saul watched from afar as the two literal Kaiju began their battle. Flames also seemed to be spreading throughout the forest, burning literally everything up. He picked up the completely nude and unconscious Temari into a princess carry, and then formed the seals for the transformation Jutsu.
Her body turned into a replica of one of the nearby dead sound Ninja. He handed the body off to a nearby clone, and the clone vanished. Then he gestured toward the clone holding Temari's items and it nodded. It jumped through the forest, towards the gigantic clash of titans and the burning flames that spread throughout the trees.
"Now... I guess I should go meet up with Hinata. She might get worried and disobey what I've asked of her if this continues, after all."
Saul made a hand seal and vanished into a puff of smoke.
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