Chapter 53: #53 Rescue Mission
The next morning I set up the houses for the others. Shizune went to the office very early and Suki had a new mission. I took Naruto and picked up Hinata and Sakura to see his progress. We went to training ground number 9 to watch the two fight.
Sato: Naruto, are you ready?
Naruto: Sure, I'll give Sakura an abortion.
Sakura: Still the same idiot as before.
Sato: Naruto, I also trained with Sakura. It won't be easy for you.
Sakura: Right, I'm going to bust your ass.
Naruto: I want to see that.
The fight started and Naruto began with his classic shadow clone jutsu and ran towards Sakura with 10 clones. Not wanting to fight with so many shadow clones, Sakura shouted, "Water Release: Flowing Scythe." A scythe of water formed in her hand, she swung it out to strike and the scythe extended 20m and cut through all of Naruto's clones. The scythe disappeared and Sakura noticed that Naruto was no longer in front of her and searched the area for him. Sakura heard a metallic "CLANG" behind her and Naruto appeared behind her and punched the air with his brass knuckles, they were just blue in color and shot a blast of frost wind in Sakura's direction. Sakura tried to dodge but couldn't do it in time and was hit by the blast wave. Naruto saw Sakura's silhouette dissolve into water and freeze from his attack.
Naruto: A water clone?
Sakura shot out of the ground the next moment and punched Naruto in the jaw with her chakra-enhanced fist. Naruto went "poof" and disappeared into the smoke.
Sakura: Another clone?
Sakura looked around and ran towards a tree behind which Naruto was standing. Naruto realized he was spotted and ran out of his cover and slammed his brass knuckles together again "CLANG" this time they turned red and Sakura hit the tree behind him and the tree trunk shot towards Naruto. Naruto punched the air and the tree trunk was hit by extremely hot air wave and burned to ash as it flew towards him. Sakura ran through the ash cloud and punched towards Naruto. Naruto dodged the punch and banged his brass knuckles together again, "SOUND" The brass knuckles turned green and Sakura became dizzy and fell to the ground. Naruto punched towards Sakura and Sakura was caught by strong whirlwind which cut her body in several places. Sakura lost a lot of blood and shouted, "Earth Release: Earth Dome." A dome of earth formed above Sakura and saved her from the whirlwind and inside Sakura tried to heal her wounds. But before she could finish her healing, she heard faintly, "CLANG, CLANG." Naruto's brass knuckles were now purple and he slammed them both onto the ground towards the earth's dome. A wave moved through the earth and destroyed Sakura's earth dome, taking Sakura with it. Sakura felt her whole body being hit by vibrations, her sense of balance did no longer work and she was being dragged helplessly by the earth's vibrating wave. Sakura lay on the ground and had several broken bones that were also due to the vibrations. I ran to her and healed her up.
Sato: Naruto, you have mastered the last level, I didn't expect that and the combination with the genjutsu, did the idea come from you or Jiraiya?
Naruto: Sensei Jiraiya told me that I can use the sound of the brass knuckles for genjutsu. But it easily took me a month to learn a genjutsu without finger signs.
Hinata: You've become really strong Naruto.
Naruto: Sakura has also improved a lot, I was really afraid that she would hit me a few times.
Sakura: Thanks Naruto, I also trained hard to get Sasuke back.
Naruto: Just forget about that idiot, you're way too good for him.
Sato: Naruto, you would do the same for Hinata, wouldn't you?
Naruto: Of course, but it's still Sasuke we're talking about here.
Sato: After all, he was the first person you kissed Naruto, doesn't that mean anything to you?
Naruto: You should never mention this again, it was just an accident and it was clearly his fault.
Sakura: You two have never gotten along, but he was so desperate back then and had this urge to become stronger than his brother. But I will get him back, whatever it takes!
Sakura got tears in her eyes.
Naruto: If this is that important to you, then I'll help you, but stop crying.
Sato: Yes, I'm sure he'll come back to Konoha soon, so train to become even stronger.
Sakura: I will.
Hinata stood next to us with red cheeks and thought about whether she should get out of Konoha too.
Naruto: By the way, Hinata. I wanted to ask you, if you would like to live with me in the house that Sato bought for us this morning?
Hinata's cheeks became even redder than they already were.
Hinata: You want to live in a house with me?
Naruto: Yes, I know this is very sudden, but I would be very happy about it.
Hinata: Of course I want to live with you, but what if dad has something against it?
Sato: I think he expected it, but Naruto should ask him again.
Naruto: Hinata, then let's go to him, I'll be able to convince him.
Hinata grabbed Naruto's arm and hugged him and she then pulled Naruto along without a word.
Naruto: Guys, I guess I'll see you later.
Naruto waved his hand and disappeared with Hinata.
Sato: And Sakura, what are you planning to do now?
Sakura: I'm going to the hospital, I have to work on my healing, because it was still too slow in the fight with Naruto.
Sato: I could teach you the Yin Seal from Auntie?
Sakura: Really, you would do that?
Sato: Yes, but it's hard to learn.
Sakura: If you teach it to me, my healing will definitely become faster.
Sato: Then let's meet in the next few days, when do you have time?
Sakura: The weekend would be best, during the week I'll help in the hospital.
Sato: I'll pick you up then, I'll go to aunt now and tell her about your progress.
I went to Auntie's office and she had Jiraiya sitting next to her.
Sato: And how was your night?
Jiraiya gave me two thumbs up and grinned at me.
Tsunade: It was very nice. It's good that you took Suki and Shizune in, after that we were able to enjoy our time more. But it's a shame that they both want to move out now.
Jiraiya: I don't think it's such a shame.
Tsunade: Me neither, but I'll miss Shizune's breakfast.
The next moment, a woman from the decryption team ran into the room.
Woman: Lady Tsunade we have received an urgent message from Sunagakure.
Tsunade: Give it to me.
Aunt flipped through the message and said, "Sato we have a problem, Gaara was defeated and kidnapped by 2 Akatsuki members. Sunagakure calls for reinforcements to look for him. You form a team with Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Mara, Yamato and Hinata and set off for Kumo to pursue the attackers. Do you want to go too, Jiraiya?
Jiraiya: They can do it without me, I'd rather stay with you and support you.
Tsunade: Sato, this is an S rank mission. Hurry up.
Sato: I'm on my way.
I got the others and we arrived in Sunagakure and were met by Jonin Baki.
Baki: It's good that you were able to get here so quickly. Kankuro was poisoned by the attackers after he tried to stop them. The two attacked the village last night and Gaara lost the fight because he wanted to protect the village from a large explosion. The attacker could fly and we couldn't do anything against him in the air. In addition, our defenses were destroyed by a spy.
Sakura: Take us to Kankuro, me and Sato will see if we can help him.
Baki: Please follow me, we have already informed our elders, but they still need some time to arrive here.
Baki took us to the room where Kankuro was lying and he was in a critical situation. Sakura took the analysis of the Medi Nins present and came to a decision.
Sato: Sakura, what would you do?
Sakura: I would suck the unknown poison directly from his body with chakra and water.
Sato: Do you want to do it or should I do it?
Sakura: I can do it.
Sato: Then I'll only help in an emergency. I'll go out with the others, so you can have some peace and quiet.
The others went with me into a waiting room and a short time later the elders joined us.
Shiyo: You...today I will avenge my family.
Shiyo saw Kakashi and ran towards him and Ebizou her brother tried to stop her.
Ebizou: What are you doing sister?
Shiyo: I'll kill the White Fang from Konoha, you idiot.
Ebizou: But the Fang has been dead for a long time, don't you remember?
Shiyo took another good look at Kakashi.
Shiyo: That's right, it's not him. I guess I was wrong then.
She then winked at us with a smile.
Naruto: Who is the White Fang, Yamato Sensei?
Kakashi: This is my father Naruto, I don't want to talk about it any further.
Shiyo: So you're his son?
Kakashi: Yes and my name is Kakashi Hatake.
Shiyo: Whatever, we have more important things to discuss right now. I'm only here because I heard that my grandson was one of the attackers. And if it was him, I would gladly kill him myself.
Sato: Do we have any leads on them?
Ebizou: Kankuro was able to tear off a piece of fabric from Sasori's coat.
Sato: That's enough for me, I can follow the trail and we shouldn't waste any time if possible.
Naruto: You can follow the trail, are you a ninken now?
Sato: No, but my sense of smell can certainly keep up with that of a ninken and if not, Kakashi simply summons Pakun.
Kakashi: I think I should call him straight away, I think it would damage your reputation Sato, if you sniff around like a dog for a scent.
Sato: Do whatever you want Kakashi. I just wanted to help.
Yamato sneaked up behind Naruto and Mara and put on his ghost face.
Yamato: We are looking for 2 living ones, maybe I can devour their souls.
Mara and Naruto saw the face on the side of their shoulders and both started screaming loudly.
Kakashi: Yamato, you're really into scaring people, it even gives me goosebumps.
Yamato: I also trained for a long time with my team.
Mara: Your sensei is really creepy!
Hinata: But he's a very nice companion once you get to know him.
Ebizou: Typically Konoha can't stay serious even now and we want to trust them with the rescue of our Kage.
Shiyo: The girl at least has a lot on her plate, I probably wouldn't have been able to handle Kankuro.
Ebizou: Is the girl really that well trained?
Shiyo: Tsunade has a very talented student, Konoha is always so lucky with talent.
Sato: You had Pakura and you messed it up because you were afraid.
Shiyo: How do you know about this?
Sato: I'm Tsunade's nephew and I'm the best at remembering things.
Shiyo: You're a Senju, I thought you were extinct?
Sato: My parents were killed by Danzo Shimura of Konoha, for whatever reason. So our clan had a similar fate to Pakura.
Shiyo: So the Senju were killed by Konoha's elders? How stupid must Danzo have been?
Sato: Yes, you're not the only ones who made stupid decisions.
Sakura entered the room.
Sakura: Kankuro will recover soon, but I need another hour to make a cure for the poison.
Sato: Do you have the poison here?
Sakura: Yes, I took a sample of it.
Sakura gave me the bottle.
Sato: Give me a few seconds.
I analyzed the poison with my All Seeing Eye and searched my memories for antidotes and snapped my fingers and 10 pills appeared in my palm.
Sato: The remedy lasts for 10 minutes and gives you immunity to the poison during this time.
Shiyo: How did you do it, the pills just appeared?
Sato: It's nothing special, just ignore it.
Everyone looked at Shiyo and nodded.
Sato: Then let's get going, every minute can be important for Gaara.
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