Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 7 We are the sands of time Part 3 ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter 7: We are the sands of time Part 3

“It’s been 20 minutes, they’re probably back were we started.” Lee said.

“We can’t go back that way, It’ll follow us. We have to get away from it first.” Iruka told them, it seemed that they needed to get away from the perusing demon before going back to find Naruto and Gaara.

A quick flash of orange drew Kakashi’s attention. “We need to move now.” He said, springing forward to better emphasis his point. The small growl that came from behind did it better though, the remaining 3 sprang forward after Kakashi who led them away.

“We can’t lead it toward the Village.” Kakashi called back.

Shikamaru held a Kunai in his hand, splitting his attention between following Kakashi and watching the Nine-Tails’s movements. Nothing seemed to slow it down, it ran through Trees or anything else that stood in it’s way with out missing a steep. “It’s too fast…” he said, watching the Demon easily gain on them.

It jumped forward, leaping past all of them and landing in front of Kakashi in a single quick movement. “Kakashi!” Iruka shouted, stopping abruptly. The Nine-Tails leapt forward and grabbed Kakashi by his chest with it’s mouth. Or at lest it appeared to be Kakashi but it was really a copy, the Jutsu released revealing a large tree branch with an explosive tag on it.

The explosive tag was directly in it’s mouth when it detonated, taking out most of the trees surrounding it in a rush of flying dirt that masked the flames. Iruka looked on in disbelief, The thought of how crossed his mind but it really didn’t matter, what did mater was were was Kakashi? “Come on.” Iruka looked back to see Kakashi jump down from a tree behind him.

Iruka nodded and followed as Kakashi lead them around the smoke. Just as expected the Nine-Tails survived with little more then a scratch and a much anger then before. It growled viciously, holding all of it’s tails outward and pounding them into the ground. A large split tore through the earth as a result, going right under the four.

It turned out to be little more then a display of power because they easily avoided , staying to one side. “At this rate, it’ll changed the landscape.” Iruka said, looking at the large fracture that extended for at lest a mile. Kakashi turned suddenly, moving to the left then going right back at the Nine-Tails. “What are you doing?”

“We can’t get to far away from where the Nine-Tails was originally supposed to go.” Kakashi said, but he was standing behind Iruka,

’The other one must be a copy.’ Iruka thought, heading to the other side while the Nine-Tails went for Iruka’s copy and only found another explosive tag.

“I think we’re making it mad…” Lee said, looking back uneasily at the 9 long tails wiping around wildly, fanning away the smoke and dust. It roared furiously, springing forward at them, But it was met with sudden wall of sand.

“Sand Coffin!”

That sand rushed around the Nine-Tails, mixing with the sand that was pulled upward from the ground. The grains swirled around it, encasing it and hardening. Another set of sands were pulled from the ground to add another lay to the attack.

Gaara and Naruto jumped over to them, still looking back at the trapped Nine tails. They could see an intense amount of Chakra radiating from the sands, it wasn’t just planning to escape. It was going to blow them apart while doing so.

Gaara’s whole body tensed as he pulled more and more sands up from the ground. But instead of using them in another Sand coffin, they began to swirl around the ground forming a whirl pool that pulled the trapped Nine-Tails down 200 feet and hardened. “Let’s go!” Kakashi said promptly, Moving with more speed then before to get away from the area.

The other’s followed, soon figuring out why they needed to get away from the area so fast. That Charka the Nine-Tails was building finally erupted in a massive explosion, blowing apart and incinerating the earth surrounding it. The flames were pushed outward by the pressure and heat in the center to the explosion, just stopping short of the last person Gaara.

“Did we get all of the foxes?” Naruto asked.

“I’m not sure, If we didn’t get them all we got most of them.” Lee told him, they got at lest enough for Konoha to fight off with a lot less damage.

“Let’s go then!”

“It’s not that simple.” Iruka said. “We can’t go back until we draw the Nine Tails back on it’s original path.”

Naruto growled in a mixture of fear and annoyance. “How far away is it?”

“We’re almost there.”

The short distance became a lot longer when the Nine-Tails jumped in front of them, it’s body glowing with Charka. “Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!” Naruto quickly did the hand seals, one Naruto becoming hundreds, surrounding the fox from all sides.

With all the copies, the real Naruto and the others were easily able to slip past the Nine-Tails. Then all of the copies, with explosive tags attached, launched a wall of Kunais at the demon from all sides. But the Nine-Tails whipped it’s tails , knocking away most of them, and expelled it’s Chakra to defect the others.

It sent a rain of tagged down over the area, mostly over the group. They scatted, knowing this was going to be one hell of an attack to avoid. Lee jumped to the side to avoid one, springing backwards away from it with his eyes steadily gazing upwards to see incoming ones. But the trees that gave some cover also blocked the view of the Kunais giving only split seconds to react. But that wasn’t nearly enough time to avoid the explosions that came when the tags detonated.


The blasts that followed knocked all of them to the ground, making them easy targets for the other raining blades. Iruka rolled to the side blindly through the smoke and flying debris, feeling a knife land in his leg. His eyes went wide and he scrabbled to pull it out, put he only managed to pull out the tag. As soon as it lifted in to the air it exploded, burning Iruka and driving the knife deeper in to his leg.

He felt another Kunai just barely graze the skin of his neck and land to the left of him. By some off chance another landed on the other side of his neck, and another landed in his side. He winced in pain, thankfully feeling no tag in the ones by his neck but there was one attached to the blade in his side. Iruka quickly pulled the knife out and tossed in the air, hearing it intercept another Kunai in the air and explode.

“Retsu ha geki no Jutsu!” Iruka thrust his hands forward and a blast of intense wind emitted from them, the air was filled with Charka and tore through the Kunai’s and the tags above him. He could hear a chain of explosions from above to confirm this. But another Kunai came diagonally and pierced his left arm.

With a grunt he pulled it out and tossed it away, feeling a tag-less blade pierce in to his other leg. He grunted and ignored it lifting his arms with much more pain then before. “Full Power Retsu ha geki no Jutsu!”

Even more Chakra was expended in this rush of air, all smoke and debris around him was blown away giving him a clear view. 10 or so Kunais were flying toward him from that direction, but they were shattered under the Chakra infused wind along with the tags. Another chain of explosions followed.

Looking back he could vaguely see Kakashi through a cloud of dust taking a more manual approach to the situation. With a Kuna in each hand, he used his senses to target an incoming knife and knock it away. Not even Kakashi could avoid all of those blades coming at him from all sides, at lest on his sense alone.

Iruka lifted his arms toward Kakashi, “Retsu ha geki no Jutsu!” He fired the burst of wind and the last bit of his Chakra toward Kakashi, carefully aiming above him and destroying all of them from every side except the back. The dust and smoke was also clear, letting Kakashi see where they Kunais were coming from next and also what had helped him.

Kakashi avoided the next set, running towards Iruka. It was clear he wouldn’t make it in time so he tossed both blades in his hands with amazing aim and knocking away two Kunais coming directly for the other man. “Kakashi, your alright… Why am I not surprised. “ Iruka said with a small smirk, hiding the fact that his body hurt like hell.

Kakashi looked around, awaiting anything else. “I had help.”

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“I’m alright?” Naruto said to himself, he’d been knocked off his feet by an explosion and more Kunais were coming down on him. But nothing hit…

He rolled on to his back finding a barrier of sand in front of him. “Gaara?” He looked around, but was surrounded by nothing but sand. The barrier fell through, covering Naruto with sand that he easily dust off.

Lee and Shikamaru we’re next to him and they also had been covered and protected by Gaara’s sand. The first thing all of then noticed was the condition of the forest, everything was in flames. Everything that was left at lest, they had a clear view of the sky, a complete change from what it was before.

It gave an almost eerie feeling, mainly because the only thing they couldn’t see what the Nine-Tails. It had left in the middle of the explosions probably thinking that they were dead, and with good reason.

Gaara nearby panting heavily, he wasn’t the most agile person and even with his sand to protect him, that many explosions at once did it damage. He had more then a few cuts over his body and blood was everywhere. Naruto ran worriedly over to him.

Halfway there he saw a flash of silver in the corner of his eye and stopped. A kunai soared pasted him, cutting through his pocket and just barley missing his leg. “Huh?” Naruto looked back at it and saw the concentration stone he’d gotten earlier was being carried by the tip of the blade.

The black stone was pinned to the ground by the Kunai and the tag exploded, knocking Naruto off his feet. The blast unleashed the Charka trapped in side and it came rushing out with enough force to drop everyone to the ground. The white energy soared upward in an almost beam like form creating strong winds.

There was more then enough Charka in the stone to reach the clouds.

Everyone watched as the last of it drained out of the destroyed stone. “I think we need to leave before we make things worse!” Lee shouted over the dieing winds.

Kakashi made it over to the rest of the group with Iruka’s arm around his shoulder and a few strips of his clothing around the wounds on his arm, legs and side. Both of them apparently agreeing with Lee.

Gaara pulled the Hour glass off his back, which he made sure would survive with extra care. Kakashi, Shikamaru, Naruto and Lee placed a hand on Gaara’s back as he started the process. All of them waiting until there surrounds had safely melted in to rushing sand before letting go.

“How much could it change? We didn’t take out that much of the forest and it probably would have been destroyed by the Nine-Tails anyway.” Lee said optimistically. “I hope your right.” Shikamaru sighed.

They had accomplished what they set out to do in-spite of the Nine-Tails’s interference.
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