Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 5 We are the sands of time ( Chapter 5 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 359 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.26.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 359 | Status: Completed
Chapter 5: We are the sands of time
All of Konoha was awaken by a loud howl and a sudden explosion that sent a shockwave outward with enough force to cover the city. Homes and shops close to the source ended up with shattered windows and broken doors, it wasn’t nearly that bad for everyone else.
A series of howls followed, coming from different parts of the city, but it seemed to come from all sides.
“What the hell was that!” Naruto shouted, his eyes shooting and his body springing up off of Gaara in surprise. Both of them looked out the window and could see a thick billow of smoke rising nearby, slowly but surely the sound of people followed, just about all of them at once.
Naruto pulled himself out of bed and got dressed as fast as he could, which was much fast then Gaara.
Being much faster, Naruto practically dragged him outside, not caring if anyone saw Gaara because they both immediately knew the situation was too bad for that. “What’s….going on?” Naruto looked around in awe as more and more explosions erupted around the city. Most of them small though.
“Someone is attacking this village, and there must be a lot of them.” Gaara gold tell that much from what he was hearing.
“Come on! We have to do something!” Naruto charged forward in the direction of the nearest fire with Gaara only a few steps behind. Before they could move a few feet, a store in front of them exploded, the force knocking both of them off their feet.
Through the blazing remains an animal jumped, a small, orange fox with 3 tails and glowing red eyes. “A demon?” Gaara studied the strange creature with the distinct feeling that it looked familiar in some way, but he had little time to think about it because it growled audibly as a warning right before it jumped at them. Gaara and Naruto separated, each moving in a different direction to get out of the way before it could pounce on one of them.
With an agile turn on it’s heels it sprang at Naruto, picking him out to be the weaker of the two, Naruto pulled his arm back sending a punch to the side of it’s face and knocking it away. The fox landed on it’s feet and rushed back him with a quick speed being no more then two steps off of the boy. But it could only take one before a wall of sand rose from the ground and smashed in it’s chin, throwing the fox to the ground.
The demon rolled on to it’s feet quickly, again coming at Naruto who was ready with a Kunai. He tossed the knife at the fox, who easily stepped to the side to evade and kept going. “It’s fast.” Naruto jumped to the left as the fox lunged at him, again successfully avoiding it.
“Sand Coffin!” It didn’t get a chance to attack a third time, as soon as it landed a mass of sand rose out of the ground, swallowing the demon’s whole body .
...
They could hear it inside trying to claw it’s way out, persistent wasn’t a good enough word for it. “Oh man…” Naruto took a step back, pressing his back to Gaara’s as more of the foxes came from inconspicuous places around them like surrounding buildings and alleyways. In the end 10 surrounded had them from every direction. They were about to attack, when an 11th fox came flying off a roof, landing hard on it’s back in front of Naruto and Gaara. It’s surprising fall was followed by a Shuriken aimed at it‘s head. Unfortunately the fox scurried out of the way and it missed.
Lee jumped down from the same roof followed by Shikamaru, neither of them had apparently saw that Naruto and Gaara were completely surrounded by the demons mainly because a large shadow cast by a nearby building had blocking the view of about 5 of them. But they quickly found out their odds. “Lee? Shikamaru? What are you too doing here?” Naruto asked, looking around casually.
Lee gave a quick, confident smirk before he raise his hands in a fighting stance. “I would ask the same thing to you.” Nothing else could be said between the 4, any voices after that were drowned out by the foxes starting growling, some barking and others howling. All 6 of the demons on the left side sprang forward, while the other 5 on the right didn’t move. Shikamaru had trapped them with Shadow mimic no jutsu, and all they could do was growl angrily.
The controlled Foxes pounced at the unsuspecting others by Shikamaru‘s control, trapping 10 of them in a furry of bites and scratches. The last fox, unpaired, charged directly at Lee, who was expectant of the attack and sent a kick at it’s jaw as it approached. The fox steeped back, running under Lee’s leg before he could lower it and jumping up his chest. Lee fell back, hitting the ground and kicking the three tailed fox off before it could do anymore then sink it’s claws in.
“We can’t fight against this many of them, we need to get out of here. Now!” Lee said, seeing the obvious miss match.
“Maybe if we split them up, we can fight them one by one.” Shikamaru suggested though his voice was strained, he could feel Chakra building in the foxes he controlled, they were about to break the Jutsu. “No...they’re stronger then I thought.”
“Why are we still standing here then! Lets go!” Naruto said, waving them forward. “We have to get to that fire.”
“You go, I’ll catch up. “ Shikamaru let the other‘s pass over him, obviously he was planning to hold the jutsu long enough for them to get away. Lee of course was going to stay with him, at lest until he could finish off the eleventh fox.
“We‘ll be at the big house down the street.” Naruto told him, this was just a rendezvous point so they could try and figure out what was happening, and why these demons looked so familiar...
Lee looked back at Naruto and Gaara, making sure they were gone, then turned back to the fox that still tried to attack him. It jumped at him again going directly for his face with it‘s mouth, Lee crouched under it and sent a sharp elbow to it’s side when the agile fox landed. The demon took the blow an countered with a swipe of it’s claws, Lee lift his arm, blocking his face and pushing it‘s paw away. The fox lunged at his face again but Lee used his already lifted arm to hold off it’s head by pushing it under it‘s chin. The demon barked and griped at him, giving up on biting and instead slashing him across his chest with it’s claws.
Lee winched and lifted his knee in too the fox’s stomach, making it fall back on to the ground. Taking the opportunity he pulled a Kunai from the holder on his leg, and threw the knife at the demon’s head. The fox lifted it’s head slightly, catching the knife in-between it’s teeth and with one fling of it’s head sent it flying back at Lee. He barely had time to move, though the knife cut him across his cheek and took a few strands of hair off. “Whoa!” That caught him off guard, this thing was fast, this whole fight was moving at a quick pace, he didn’t expected his reflexes to be tested this much. While Lee regained his footing the fox an opportunity to ram his legs and knock him to the ground.
The orange demon turned around and dived at him, but as soon as it landed on his chest and was about to bite it was met with a Kunai from Lee, driven into it’s head directly under into the soft skin under it’s chin.
Lee pushed the dead demon off of him and joined Shikamaru, just as the fox broke his Jutsu. “Got a plan for this one?” Lee asked nervously.
“Just follow me, I hope Naruto and Gaara are ready.”
! - ! - !
“Damnit!” Naruto sighed, passing his favorite Raman shop. The actual building was still intact, only everything inside was broken or on fire.
Gaara stopped.
“What is it?” Naruto in turn paused and turned back, wondering what the possible reason Gaara could have for stopping so close to their destination, A large mansion that was no more then a block ahead of them, one of the only structures still in tact. It was picked because it was one not to far away from the large fire that drew Naruto outside in the first place.
Gaara thought for a second...then walked in to the Raman stand. He disappeared into a haze of black smoke, returning with three containers in hand.
The one square containers was labeled ‘chill powder’, the long cylinder was labeled ’curry powder’ and the last ’Black pepper.’ Naruto scratched his head, this is what they stopped for?. “What do you need those for?”
! - !- !
Shikamaru’s strategically erratic pattern of movement along the roof tops didn’t detour the demons one bit. Though they couldn’t jump that high, they were faster and followed the two like blood hounds... Until they reached one particular spot and stopped all together, strangely. “Hey look.” Lee looking back at the foxes, all of them were enveloped in a cloud of lose dust they had kicked up themselves.
They were sneezing and their eyes were watering, not one of them were still paying attention to their former targets. “It smell like…Chill powder?” Shikamaru looked at the demons with a spark of realization, turning toward the meeting point and seeing nothing but a small piece of orange where Naruto was almost concealed under a pile of rock and debris on the roof. With an open chance, the two rushed toward the building, jumping in to a shattered window directly under Naruto and Gaara.
Crouched down out of view, Lee and Shikamaru looked toward the ceiling. “Can you hear me?” Shikamaru asked as quietly as he could while trying to be heard.
A small hole opened up.
“Yeah, now what are we going to do about those foxes out there?” Naruto asked.
“There’s no way we could fight them head on, Lee is the only person fast enough to stand a chance against an opponent like. These aren’t ordinarily demons, they’re smart and I’m sure they’ve studied all of us by now. So the only way we can attack is to stay hidden and use long range. This seems like a good vantage point and I see you‘ve already taken out their sense of smell so that should make it easier for us ...Hmm.” Shikamaru paused, still working out what he was thinking. “But if me or Lee attempts to scout them out from a position like this they’ll most definitely see us. So you two will have to be our eyes.” Shikamaru told them. With a Kunai Lee was cutting a square hole in the wall in-between him and Shikamaru.
“Can’t I just use Kage Bunshin and--”
“No, I’ve seen how these demons work. If you do that then they’ll just follow your Chakra. Just scout.”
It was a simple but effective plan to dispose of the demons, Naruto would tell Lee and Shikamaru where to attack. Then they would attack through the hole, then put it back in place before anyone of the foxes could see where the attack had come from. Gaara would also be attacking with the sand from where he was so that would help.
“You got one heading this way, about 10 feet off at 12 o’clock.” Naruto called down. Sand shot up from the ground under the fox he was indicating, knocking it to the ground, followed by a Kunai to the head. Shikamaru quickly pulled the square back in place, just as the other foxes scrambled to the downed one. “All of them are in the same place, take your pick.”
A considerably larger amount of sand rushed out of the ground under the 9 remaining foxes. Three Kunais came now, only hitting two of the foxes though striking them directly in the head. The remaining 7 started to become on guard, prowling around carefully with only the knowledge that the attacks were coming from somewhere nearby.
“I think one of them is starting to figure it out. About 9 feet and closing in at 10 o’clock.”
Lee pulled open the hole while Shikamaru threw the knife at the indicated demon, which some how saw the attack coming in and caught the blade in-between it’s teeth. With one hard bite the orange fox snapped it in-half.
Before the fox could make a sound to alert the others to what it had seen, it’s body was knocked into the air by uprising sand.
“Oh man! That last one saw it coming.” Naruto said hastily, in a rush Lee opened the hole and Shikamaru retook the shot, sending a knife through it’s throat while it was still entangled in the rising sand. The others took notice to what was happening and finally became suspicious of the building. “Now all of them are coming this way, you have to stop them Gaara.”
This time a wall of sand burst through the ground between them and the structure, but the foxes jumped back and avoided it, along with the next three Kunais that followed. The foxes began sniping and growling, running toward the building now. “They’re coming!” Naruto said nervously.
“Alright, you two stay where you are.” Shikamaru told them, opening the hole again and looking out. All but one fox were coved in the shadow of the building, meaning they were out of Naruto’s view.
Shikamaru pulled out a Kunai and a shuriken, ’This should do it.’... He tossed the Shuriken at the Fox, the Kunai right after. The fox easily stepped back and avoided the knife, moving to the left to avoid the Shuriken. The demon was now under the shade of another house, it’s shadow just inches away from the fox in front of it, those inches were filled by the shadow cast by the Kunai and Shuriken he’d just thrown. “Shadow mimic no jutsu!”
In only a second he had caught 6 foxes in the Jutsu, giving Lee an open opportunity for an attack. With his location already known, Lee stood up with three knives in-between his fingers, Striking the three closest foxes directly between the eyes with one slight flick of his wrist.
Shikamaru could feel the Chakra in the remaining three building from where he was....
“That’s it, I’m out.” Lee said disappointedly to Shikamaru, things just kept getting worse and worse.
The Chakra that had been built by the demons didn’t go to a jutsu, the foxes didn’t know any, instead they unleashed it into a an explosion. Very powerful but with no aim or direction since there was little way to control that kind of attack, one of the three erupted upon the house next to them, the other two someplace behind but nearby. Either way it broke Shikamaru’s Jutsu, also knocking Lee to the ground and shattering any remaining windows in the house.
In a blur of orange fur and a display of power, all thee of the foxes jumped up and burst through the wall Shikamaru was leaning against, just narrowly missing the boy himself. Shikamaru sent a knife upward, managing to catch a fox above him under it’s mouth then pulled it out. The dead demon fell on top of him, shielding him from the second one that tried to pounce on him. Pushing both away, Shikamaru threw the blood sheathed Kunai at the living demon, hitting it though the eye. Noticing that they weren’t good at close range, Lee easily kick the remaining one in it’s side and knocked it out of the hole it had just created..
The Fox landed on it’s feet just as Shikamaru pulled the remaining knife from one of the dead emesis. The fox howled loudly but only for a few seconds before sand swirled around it and enclosed it in a sand coffin. But this one was at an angle and had the sheer power where it could jump up and break through Gaara’s attack, and as soon as it did it was met with Shikamaru’s Kunai.
“That howl...It just told the others where it was.” Shikamaru sighed.
Gaara immediately noticed something, he could feel the sun, which he shouldn’t have been able too because he was concealed in debris. He turned around and came face to face with a fox that had it’s mouth open about to strike. But instead he was splattered in blood, his eyes shot open after his body flinched, just in time to see the fox knocked away by a knife now embedded in it’s head
As soon as the body cleared from his vision, he could see Kakashi standing behind him. “You…..Saved me..” Gaara wiped the blood away with his arm, still unable to believe what had just happened.
“I couldn’t just let you die, Naruto would pout.” Kakashi smirked behind the mask in his usual laid back fashion.
Naruto pulled himself from his formerly hidden spot, looking over Gaara to make sure he was alright. “What’s going on?”
Iruka jumped from a nearby roof top, his arm bleeding slightly but it the injury wasn’t new. “I’m glad to see you two are alright.” He said, visibly and audibly relived. “With everything that’s happening...”
Shikamaru and Lee emerged the floor below relatively unhurt, a little surprised to see the two men on this particular roof. “All of these are demons, confirmed to be off springs of the Nine-tails that attacked Konoha 12 years ago. You can see the resemblance not only physically but in strength and Chakra levels.” Iruka explained.
“How many are there?” Shikamaru asked.
“ 100, maybe more.”
“100! But that can’t be possible!” Naruto shouted in disbelief.
“Well it is and all of them decided to attack at the same time. They most likely came from different parts of the forest around Konoha. I‘m sure they all are from different packs too.” Iruka explained
A powerful explosion erupted under them, incinerating the building almost instantly and sending a shockwave outward.
.....
! - ! - !
“It’s amazing you can do this.” Lee looked around excitedly, at the last second he had been lifted up in the air to a safe range by a mass of sand.
Gaara answered in his usual discarding manner “I always could use sand to carry me.” Gaara told him, floating nearby with Naruto in his lap.
“Not bad.” Kakashi complemented, looking down at the demon that had caused the explosion.
From up there they could see all of Konoha, it didn’t look too good. “They came too fast, attacking an already weakened village. And with no Hokage..” Iruka sighed, at lest half the city was in flames from the explosions, and the fires were spreading. So not only did they have to deal with the demons, but also the flames. He could barely breath where he was because of all the smoke rising.
“So what’s going to happen?” Naruto asked.
“10 to 1, The village isn‘t going to make it through this.”
Iruka was right, there was a good chance this would be the end of Konoha.
And Naruto wouldn’t let that happen. “Gaara.” He looked up at the boy, and Gaara immediately knew what he was thinking.
“Normally I would object to this, but…” Kakashi folded his arms looking around him, this was the only way.
“How far back are you planning to go?” Shikamaru asked.
“I’m not sure…” Gaara was waiting for the specifics, which he never handled.
“All the way back to the beginning.” Naruto said, he wasn’t exactly sure of himself, but he had to do something.
“Aren’t you missing something.” Kakashi pointed out. Gaara looked down at himself... he was missing the hourglass!
Naruto’s place wasn’t too far away, he could probably make it there without any problem.
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All of Konoha was awaken by a loud howl and a sudden explosion that sent a shockwave outward with enough force to cover the city. Homes and shops close to the source ended up with shattered windows and broken doors, it wasn’t nearly that bad for everyone else.
A series of howls followed, coming from different parts of the city, but it seemed to come from all sides.
“What the hell was that!” Naruto shouted, his eyes shooting and his body springing up off of Gaara in surprise. Both of them looked out the window and could see a thick billow of smoke rising nearby, slowly but surely the sound of people followed, just about all of them at once.
Naruto pulled himself out of bed and got dressed as fast as he could, which was much fast then Gaara.
Being much faster, Naruto practically dragged him outside, not caring if anyone saw Gaara because they both immediately knew the situation was too bad for that. “What’s….going on?” Naruto looked around in awe as more and more explosions erupted around the city. Most of them small though.
“Someone is attacking this village, and there must be a lot of them.” Gaara gold tell that much from what he was hearing.
“Come on! We have to do something!” Naruto charged forward in the direction of the nearest fire with Gaara only a few steps behind. Before they could move a few feet, a store in front of them exploded, the force knocking both of them off their feet.
Through the blazing remains an animal jumped, a small, orange fox with 3 tails and glowing red eyes. “A demon?” Gaara studied the strange creature with the distinct feeling that it looked familiar in some way, but he had little time to think about it because it growled audibly as a warning right before it jumped at them. Gaara and Naruto separated, each moving in a different direction to get out of the way before it could pounce on one of them.
With an agile turn on it’s heels it sprang at Naruto, picking him out to be the weaker of the two, Naruto pulled his arm back sending a punch to the side of it’s face and knocking it away. The fox landed on it’s feet and rushed back him with a quick speed being no more then two steps off of the boy. But it could only take one before a wall of sand rose from the ground and smashed in it’s chin, throwing the fox to the ground.
The demon rolled on to it’s feet quickly, again coming at Naruto who was ready with a Kunai. He tossed the knife at the fox, who easily stepped to the side to evade and kept going. “It’s fast.” Naruto jumped to the left as the fox lunged at him, again successfully avoiding it.
“Sand Coffin!” It didn’t get a chance to attack a third time, as soon as it landed a mass of sand rose out of the ground, swallowing the demon’s whole body .
...
They could hear it inside trying to claw it’s way out, persistent wasn’t a good enough word for it. “Oh man…” Naruto took a step back, pressing his back to Gaara’s as more of the foxes came from inconspicuous places around them like surrounding buildings and alleyways. In the end 10 surrounded had them from every direction. They were about to attack, when an 11th fox came flying off a roof, landing hard on it’s back in front of Naruto and Gaara. It’s surprising fall was followed by a Shuriken aimed at it‘s head. Unfortunately the fox scurried out of the way and it missed.
Lee jumped down from the same roof followed by Shikamaru, neither of them had apparently saw that Naruto and Gaara were completely surrounded by the demons mainly because a large shadow cast by a nearby building had blocking the view of about 5 of them. But they quickly found out their odds. “Lee? Shikamaru? What are you too doing here?” Naruto asked, looking around casually.
Lee gave a quick, confident smirk before he raise his hands in a fighting stance. “I would ask the same thing to you.” Nothing else could be said between the 4, any voices after that were drowned out by the foxes starting growling, some barking and others howling. All 6 of the demons on the left side sprang forward, while the other 5 on the right didn’t move. Shikamaru had trapped them with Shadow mimic no jutsu, and all they could do was growl angrily.
The controlled Foxes pounced at the unsuspecting others by Shikamaru‘s control, trapping 10 of them in a furry of bites and scratches. The last fox, unpaired, charged directly at Lee, who was expectant of the attack and sent a kick at it’s jaw as it approached. The fox steeped back, running under Lee’s leg before he could lower it and jumping up his chest. Lee fell back, hitting the ground and kicking the three tailed fox off before it could do anymore then sink it’s claws in.
“We can’t fight against this many of them, we need to get out of here. Now!” Lee said, seeing the obvious miss match.
“Maybe if we split them up, we can fight them one by one.” Shikamaru suggested though his voice was strained, he could feel Chakra building in the foxes he controlled, they were about to break the Jutsu. “No...they’re stronger then I thought.”
“Why are we still standing here then! Lets go!” Naruto said, waving them forward. “We have to get to that fire.”
“You go, I’ll catch up. “ Shikamaru let the other‘s pass over him, obviously he was planning to hold the jutsu long enough for them to get away. Lee of course was going to stay with him, at lest until he could finish off the eleventh fox.
“We‘ll be at the big house down the street.” Naruto told him, this was just a rendezvous point so they could try and figure out what was happening, and why these demons looked so familiar...
Lee looked back at Naruto and Gaara, making sure they were gone, then turned back to the fox that still tried to attack him. It jumped at him again going directly for his face with it‘s mouth, Lee crouched under it and sent a sharp elbow to it’s side when the agile fox landed. The demon took the blow an countered with a swipe of it’s claws, Lee lift his arm, blocking his face and pushing it‘s paw away. The fox lunged at his face again but Lee used his already lifted arm to hold off it’s head by pushing it under it‘s chin. The demon barked and griped at him, giving up on biting and instead slashing him across his chest with it’s claws.
Lee winched and lifted his knee in too the fox’s stomach, making it fall back on to the ground. Taking the opportunity he pulled a Kunai from the holder on his leg, and threw the knife at the demon’s head. The fox lifted it’s head slightly, catching the knife in-between it’s teeth and with one fling of it’s head sent it flying back at Lee. He barely had time to move, though the knife cut him across his cheek and took a few strands of hair off. “Whoa!” That caught him off guard, this thing was fast, this whole fight was moving at a quick pace, he didn’t expected his reflexes to be tested this much. While Lee regained his footing the fox an opportunity to ram his legs and knock him to the ground.
The orange demon turned around and dived at him, but as soon as it landed on his chest and was about to bite it was met with a Kunai from Lee, driven into it’s head directly under into the soft skin under it’s chin.
Lee pushed the dead demon off of him and joined Shikamaru, just as the fox broke his Jutsu. “Got a plan for this one?” Lee asked nervously.
“Just follow me, I hope Naruto and Gaara are ready.”
! - ! - !
“Damnit!” Naruto sighed, passing his favorite Raman shop. The actual building was still intact, only everything inside was broken or on fire.
Gaara stopped.
“What is it?” Naruto in turn paused and turned back, wondering what the possible reason Gaara could have for stopping so close to their destination, A large mansion that was no more then a block ahead of them, one of the only structures still in tact. It was picked because it was one not to far away from the large fire that drew Naruto outside in the first place.
Gaara thought for a second...then walked in to the Raman stand. He disappeared into a haze of black smoke, returning with three containers in hand.
The one square containers was labeled ‘chill powder’, the long cylinder was labeled ’curry powder’ and the last ’Black pepper.’ Naruto scratched his head, this is what they stopped for?. “What do you need those for?”
! - !- !
Shikamaru’s strategically erratic pattern of movement along the roof tops didn’t detour the demons one bit. Though they couldn’t jump that high, they were faster and followed the two like blood hounds... Until they reached one particular spot and stopped all together, strangely. “Hey look.” Lee looking back at the foxes, all of them were enveloped in a cloud of lose dust they had kicked up themselves.
They were sneezing and their eyes were watering, not one of them were still paying attention to their former targets. “It smell like…Chill powder?” Shikamaru looked at the demons with a spark of realization, turning toward the meeting point and seeing nothing but a small piece of orange where Naruto was almost concealed under a pile of rock and debris on the roof. With an open chance, the two rushed toward the building, jumping in to a shattered window directly under Naruto and Gaara.
Crouched down out of view, Lee and Shikamaru looked toward the ceiling. “Can you hear me?” Shikamaru asked as quietly as he could while trying to be heard.
A small hole opened up.
“Yeah, now what are we going to do about those foxes out there?” Naruto asked.
“There’s no way we could fight them head on, Lee is the only person fast enough to stand a chance against an opponent like. These aren’t ordinarily demons, they’re smart and I’m sure they’ve studied all of us by now. So the only way we can attack is to stay hidden and use long range. This seems like a good vantage point and I see you‘ve already taken out their sense of smell so that should make it easier for us ...Hmm.” Shikamaru paused, still working out what he was thinking. “But if me or Lee attempts to scout them out from a position like this they’ll most definitely see us. So you two will have to be our eyes.” Shikamaru told them. With a Kunai Lee was cutting a square hole in the wall in-between him and Shikamaru.
“Can’t I just use Kage Bunshin and--”
“No, I’ve seen how these demons work. If you do that then they’ll just follow your Chakra. Just scout.”
It was a simple but effective plan to dispose of the demons, Naruto would tell Lee and Shikamaru where to attack. Then they would attack through the hole, then put it back in place before anyone of the foxes could see where the attack had come from. Gaara would also be attacking with the sand from where he was so that would help.
“You got one heading this way, about 10 feet off at 12 o’clock.” Naruto called down. Sand shot up from the ground under the fox he was indicating, knocking it to the ground, followed by a Kunai to the head. Shikamaru quickly pulled the square back in place, just as the other foxes scrambled to the downed one. “All of them are in the same place, take your pick.”
A considerably larger amount of sand rushed out of the ground under the 9 remaining foxes. Three Kunais came now, only hitting two of the foxes though striking them directly in the head. The remaining 7 started to become on guard, prowling around carefully with only the knowledge that the attacks were coming from somewhere nearby.
“I think one of them is starting to figure it out. About 9 feet and closing in at 10 o’clock.”
Lee pulled open the hole while Shikamaru threw the knife at the indicated demon, which some how saw the attack coming in and caught the blade in-between it’s teeth. With one hard bite the orange fox snapped it in-half.
Before the fox could make a sound to alert the others to what it had seen, it’s body was knocked into the air by uprising sand.
“Oh man! That last one saw it coming.” Naruto said hastily, in a rush Lee opened the hole and Shikamaru retook the shot, sending a knife through it’s throat while it was still entangled in the rising sand. The others took notice to what was happening and finally became suspicious of the building. “Now all of them are coming this way, you have to stop them Gaara.”
This time a wall of sand burst through the ground between them and the structure, but the foxes jumped back and avoided it, along with the next three Kunais that followed. The foxes began sniping and growling, running toward the building now. “They’re coming!” Naruto said nervously.
“Alright, you two stay where you are.” Shikamaru told them, opening the hole again and looking out. All but one fox were coved in the shadow of the building, meaning they were out of Naruto’s view.
Shikamaru pulled out a Kunai and a shuriken, ’This should do it.’... He tossed the Shuriken at the Fox, the Kunai right after. The fox easily stepped back and avoided the knife, moving to the left to avoid the Shuriken. The demon was now under the shade of another house, it’s shadow just inches away from the fox in front of it, those inches were filled by the shadow cast by the Kunai and Shuriken he’d just thrown. “Shadow mimic no jutsu!”
In only a second he had caught 6 foxes in the Jutsu, giving Lee an open opportunity for an attack. With his location already known, Lee stood up with three knives in-between his fingers, Striking the three closest foxes directly between the eyes with one slight flick of his wrist.
Shikamaru could feel the Chakra in the remaining three building from where he was....
“That’s it, I’m out.” Lee said disappointedly to Shikamaru, things just kept getting worse and worse.
The Chakra that had been built by the demons didn’t go to a jutsu, the foxes didn’t know any, instead they unleashed it into a an explosion. Very powerful but with no aim or direction since there was little way to control that kind of attack, one of the three erupted upon the house next to them, the other two someplace behind but nearby. Either way it broke Shikamaru’s Jutsu, also knocking Lee to the ground and shattering any remaining windows in the house.
In a blur of orange fur and a display of power, all thee of the foxes jumped up and burst through the wall Shikamaru was leaning against, just narrowly missing the boy himself. Shikamaru sent a knife upward, managing to catch a fox above him under it’s mouth then pulled it out. The dead demon fell on top of him, shielding him from the second one that tried to pounce on him. Pushing both away, Shikamaru threw the blood sheathed Kunai at the living demon, hitting it though the eye. Noticing that they weren’t good at close range, Lee easily kick the remaining one in it’s side and knocked it out of the hole it had just created..
The Fox landed on it’s feet just as Shikamaru pulled the remaining knife from one of the dead emesis. The fox howled loudly but only for a few seconds before sand swirled around it and enclosed it in a sand coffin. But this one was at an angle and had the sheer power where it could jump up and break through Gaara’s attack, and as soon as it did it was met with Shikamaru’s Kunai.
“That howl...It just told the others where it was.” Shikamaru sighed.
Gaara immediately noticed something, he could feel the sun, which he shouldn’t have been able too because he was concealed in debris. He turned around and came face to face with a fox that had it’s mouth open about to strike. But instead he was splattered in blood, his eyes shot open after his body flinched, just in time to see the fox knocked away by a knife now embedded in it’s head
As soon as the body cleared from his vision, he could see Kakashi standing behind him. “You…..Saved me..” Gaara wiped the blood away with his arm, still unable to believe what had just happened.
“I couldn’t just let you die, Naruto would pout.” Kakashi smirked behind the mask in his usual laid back fashion.
Naruto pulled himself from his formerly hidden spot, looking over Gaara to make sure he was alright. “What’s going on?”
Iruka jumped from a nearby roof top, his arm bleeding slightly but it the injury wasn’t new. “I’m glad to see you two are alright.” He said, visibly and audibly relived. “With everything that’s happening...”
Shikamaru and Lee emerged the floor below relatively unhurt, a little surprised to see the two men on this particular roof. “All of these are demons, confirmed to be off springs of the Nine-tails that attacked Konoha 12 years ago. You can see the resemblance not only physically but in strength and Chakra levels.” Iruka explained.
“How many are there?” Shikamaru asked.
“ 100, maybe more.”
“100! But that can’t be possible!” Naruto shouted in disbelief.
“Well it is and all of them decided to attack at the same time. They most likely came from different parts of the forest around Konoha. I‘m sure they all are from different packs too.” Iruka explained
A powerful explosion erupted under them, incinerating the building almost instantly and sending a shockwave outward.
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“It’s amazing you can do this.” Lee looked around excitedly, at the last second he had been lifted up in the air to a safe range by a mass of sand.
Gaara answered in his usual discarding manner “I always could use sand to carry me.” Gaara told him, floating nearby with Naruto in his lap.
“Not bad.” Kakashi complemented, looking down at the demon that had caused the explosion.
From up there they could see all of Konoha, it didn’t look too good. “They came too fast, attacking an already weakened village. And with no Hokage..” Iruka sighed, at lest half the city was in flames from the explosions, and the fires were spreading. So not only did they have to deal with the demons, but also the flames. He could barely breath where he was because of all the smoke rising.
“So what’s going to happen?” Naruto asked.
“10 to 1, The village isn‘t going to make it through this.”
Iruka was right, there was a good chance this would be the end of Konoha.
And Naruto wouldn’t let that happen. “Gaara.” He looked up at the boy, and Gaara immediately knew what he was thinking.
“Normally I would object to this, but…” Kakashi folded his arms looking around him, this was the only way.
“How far back are you planning to go?” Shikamaru asked.
“I’m not sure…” Gaara was waiting for the specifics, which he never handled.
“All the way back to the beginning.” Naruto said, he wasn’t exactly sure of himself, but he had to do something.
“Aren’t you missing something.” Kakashi pointed out. Gaara looked down at himself... he was missing the hourglass!
Naruto’s place wasn’t too far away, he could probably make it there without any problem.
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