Chapter 3: Leave us alone

Kirigakure

Mei Terumi was just informed by her ninja that Konoha was waiting for the loyalists to show up and that Kiri must guard the Sanbi. So right now she was observing the Konoha ninja. She thought that she should see these Loyalist her self and see what their made of.

Shikamaru just got word from Kakashi who he found out was helping him that Naruto and his squad were on their way to Kiri. It's been 2 days since he heard. Thanks to the Mizukage Rookie 9 was allowed to rest in the village. Now it was only a matter of time.

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke were walking to Kiri unknown that they were expected. They got pass the border with ease and were now making their way to the lake.

Sasuke stopped along with Naruto and Sakura. "Come out." Sasuke ordered. It was a few minutes but no reply. "If you don't come out now, I'll blow this whole forest up!" Naruto warned. Three forms jumped out of the trees in front of them.

Naruto sighed in annoyance. In front of them was Neji, Lee and TenTen. "Naruto." Neji called with a whisper. "Go away." Naruto ordered. "Sorry Naruto-kun! But we must bring you back to the village!" Lee stated. "No." Sakura spoke. Lee looked her up and down. He shook his head in disappointment.

"Why Sakura-chan? Why did you leave?" Lee wondered. "Why did you all leave?" TenTen demanded. "We have our reasons. If you don't step away I will kill you." Naruto warned. "No Naruto, were your friends. Please come back." Neji pleaded.

"No. You have to the count of three to move." Naruto stated. "Sakura please talk some sense into him." TenTen begged. "One…" Naruto started. "No, Naruto-kun is right. If you don't leave we will kill you." Sakura stated. "Two…" Naruto continued.

"It's no use. Prepare your selves." Neji ordered activating his Byakugan. Lee got into his fighting stance while TenTen pulled out some kunai. "Three…" Naruto finished. Lee charged at fast speed and appeared behind Naruto aiming a kick for his head.

Naruto didn't move but Sakura did. She grabbed Lee's foot and swung him back past his teammates. He crashed into a tree but slowly picked himself back up.

"Neji what do you see?" TenTen asked. "Nothing." Neji replied. Without moving A clone of Naruto ran at Neji. TenTen tried dispelling it by throwing her Kunai but it swiftly dodged.

"Rotation!" Neji cried spinning around. Sasuke took this chance and leaped at Neji with an axe kick when his rotation finished. TenTen was distracted with another Naruto clone that a clone made.

Lee regained his senses and charged the real Naruto once more. "Leaf hurricane!" Lee yelled spinning a kick at Naruto. Naruto and Sakura dodged out the way and ran ahead with Sasuke close behind.

"Are they running?" Lee asked. "No their trying to get to Sanbi." Neji said chasing after them. TenTen and Lee followed Neji. Naruto was leading jumping through trees in silence. "Naruto-kun are you okay?" Sakura asked. "Yeah I'm fine Sakura-chan." Naruto answered. Sasuke finally caught up to them. "Why did you run away? Are you afraid of killing them?" Sasuke demanded.

Naruto was silent for awhile but finally decided to speak. "No. I ran away because there are more. I feel like it will be waste of time to repeat ourselves over. We should just kill them all at one spot." Naruto explained. Sasuke calmed down knowing now why he ran.

"But we also have to find Sanbi. If we don't kill them all at once we will be wasting chakra trying to hold them off and capture the three tails." Naruto explained. "You make a good point Naru-kun. Do you know how many?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah. Rookie 9." Naruto answered. Sakura smirked. "Looks like I will be seeing Piggy again." Sakura snickered. Naruto smiled but kept leaping.

"Neji report." Shikamaru ordered into his radio. "Their headed your way. But be careful they single handedly kicked our asses." Neji said. "Alright. Make it back as fast as you can." Shikamaru ordered.

"Alright everyone their on their way! So get ready!" Shikamaru barked out orders. After 5 minutes the loyalists leaped down to the ground. In front of them was rookie 9 staring at them with sad but hopeful eyes.

"So were here then." Naruto spoke first. Shikamaru stepped up staring at Naruto. "Naruto, Sakura. Tell us, tell us why you left." Shikamaru demanded his voice calm. "We left because were tired of being used. We left to be free and do whatever we want. To bring true peace to the world." Naruto stated.

"Do you really believe joining Akatsuki is gonna bring that? Soon they will try and seal you!" Shikamaru stated. "I will kill every single one of them if they try to steal him away from me!" Sakura glared tightening her grip on Naruto's hand. "Don't worry Sakura-chan I'm not going any where." Naruto smiled softly at her.

"So it's true you two are dating, aren't you forehead?" Ino said walking up. Sakura laughed at her while Naruto smirked. "Dating? Ha!" Sakura laughed. "Sakura haruno what are you stupid? You just stated you would never let Akatsuki take him!" Ino shouted.

"Sakura haruno? More like Sakura Namikaze. I'm not dating Naruto-kun, I'm married to him." Sakura grinned pulling off her glove and showing her ring to rookie 9. Rookie 9 were shocked. "You married him?" Ino demanded. "Yup, a couple months ago. You should get your facts straight." Sakura smirked putting her glove back on.

"So even though you have plunged into darkness your still happy? I don't believe this." Kiba shook his head in disbelief. "We didn't ask you too. In fact you all should of stayed home. Because last time when I let you go, it was for all of you not just one of you. I let you go on a whim for old times sake. But now I will kill you." Naruto smirked.

Hinata was still shocked, Naruto her Naruto was married to that pink haired, short tempered bully! "What's wrong Hinata?" Sakura smirked noticing Hinata's behavior. "You… You took him away from me. You made him follow you into darkness. You always made fun of him and hit him. YOU TOOK AWAY MY NARUTO!" Hinata cried. Naruto snorted.

"Your Naruto? I was never your to begin with. Why would I love you? The one who stalked me everywhere? Saw what those villagers did to me and sat back to watch. You are a disgrace! I never loved you hell I never even liked you!

I always and forever will love Sakura-chan. She has my heart and I have hers. It was my choice to leave. She loved me enough to follow me when I didn't want her too. Yes she hit me and made fun of me, just like everyone else. You Hinata hyuuga, are a waste of space." Naruto scolded.

Hinata fell apart. She didn't even cry, all she did was fall to her knees her heart was beating slower. Kiba was dying to kill Naruto. "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO HER? She loved you with everything! And all you did was spit on her!" Kiba roared. "Shut up dog boy." Sakura ordered.

Kiba glared at her, his attention on her. "It was her own fault. Your no better. You constantly watched her chase after Naruto-kun. You knew Naruto would not return her feelings, yet you did nothing to help her move on. If you really cared about this weak fragile minded hyuuga, you would have won her heart by now." Sakura scolded.

Everybody was frozen. Never did they imagine for Naruto to lash out on Hinata. Kiba had enough. "NARUUUTOOO!" Kiba roared running at Naruto at full speed. Naruto didn't respond but watch Kiba run at him. Once Kiba was too close he formed a Rasengan in his hand and smashed against Kiba's chest sending him flying up to the sky.

"Kiba!" Choji yelled. "Damn!" Shikamaru cursed casting his shadow possession jutsu. The shadow reached to Naruto who tensed up. Choji expanded his hand to catch the injured Kiba.

"Let me go." Naruto ordered. "Sorry Naruto but I can't do that." Shikamaru stated. "Your down fall." Naruto smirked. In choji's hand Kiba transformed to Naruto and plunged a Rasengan to choji's chest making the Akamichi scream in pain and fly back.

"Choji!" Ino called. Sakura lunged at Shikamaru but when she reached him she jumped over him and kicked Ino to the curb. The silent Sasuke started to make his move. "Chidori spear." Sasuke muttered charging his chidori. A spear from the chidori formed and shot at Shikamaru.

Shikamaru cursed before jumping out the way Naruto following suit. "Sasuke." Naruto called. Sasuke nodded before pointing his spear at Naruto. "What are you doing?" Shikamaru demanded. "If Sasuke hurts me, it also hurts you right?" Naruto smirked. Shikamaru grumbled. "Yeah so what's your point?" Shikamaru barked.

"Sasuke is gonna stab my heart. In the end killing you. Let me go." Naruto ordered. Shikamaru was forming a plan in his head but was interrupted when Sakura decked his face with her fist.

By force Shikamaru canceled the jutsu. "Sakura!" Sasuke called. Sakura jumped out the way when a fire ball was headed her way frying the swarm of bugs behind her.

Sakura leaped back to her husband with a smile. But they all had to flip out of the way when Lee came crashing towards them. Sasuke formed hand signs before blowing 3 large fireballs at Team guy.

They jumped out of the way with mere burns. Ino recovered and started healing Choji and Kiba. Hinata was still in shock so she couldn't help. Naruto and his teammates landed on some tree branches as Shikamaru got back up.

'Damn! They are not even trying! Sasuke hasn't activated his Sharingan, Naruto has only used one move while Sakura is just using taijutsu! I have to come up with a plan but Kiba and Choji are injured, Hinata is still in shock. What should I do?' Shikamaru panicked.

"Sasuke were wasting time. Lets kill them and move on." Naruto stated. "No." Sasuke said getting curious looks from his team. "Why? Aren't you the one who wants to kill them?" Sakura asked. "Yeah. But I know how we can save a trip. Naruto I need you to mark Shikamaru, Sakura mark Ino and I'll mark lee. I have a plan." Sasuke explained.

"Alright. You want a seal?" Naruto wondered. "No just something that you can push some chakra into." Sasuke informed. Naruto and his wife nodded. "So what should we do?" Sakura asked. "Well don't kill them, but don't let them go uninjured." Sasuke smirked.

"Well alright. Sakura-chan lets use our jutsu." Naruto grinned. "Okay Naruto-kun." Sakura grinned back. The two jumped down from the tree and pulled out a three pronged kunai.

Shikamaru narrowed his eyes at it and started forming some sort of plan. Naruto charged the groups left while Sakura charged the right. Shikamaru tried to keep his eyes on both but couldn't. "Shikamaru I got Sakura. You look at Naruto." Neji ordered. Shikamaru nodded turning his attention to Naruto who was still running around.

'Is he trying to make us dizzy?' Shikamaru thought. Then he noticed Naruto and Sakura cross paths. They still had the strange kunai but kept running till they jumped up in the air throwing the kunai which planted to the ground.

Naruto and Sakura started forming hand signs with a smirk. "Ninja art: Hiraishin Ring Jutsu!" They yelled. In a yellow and pink flash they were gone. "Where did they go?" Shikamaru demanded. "I don't know I can't…" Neji didn't finish because he was sent flying from a punch to his face.

"Neji!" TenTen called. She hunched over and gasped for breath. "What is going on?" Shikamaru wondered. Shino crashed against a tree coughing out blood. Shikamaru was looking around nervously. Ino screamed in pain when she was thrown to the ground. Before he knew it he was sent flying also.

In another flash Naruto and Sakura appeared with a evil grin. Lee Charged at them with a yell but was quickly stopped by Sasuke when he pierced lee with his chidori spear.

They blinked to realize Lee wasn't pierced the wall of wood in front of him was. Naruto and Sakura leaped away when ink lions flew down at them. Naruto pulled out a kunai and slashed the lions to ink. Sakura dodged the ninja hounds that tried to attack her.

Sasuke cut the wood pole that was coming towards him. Once again they were together waiting for this uninvited guest to show themselves.

"So this is what you turned out to be?" A voice asked. Out of the trees Yamato appeared. "Naruto, Sakura." Yamato called. "Captain Tenzo, Kaka-sensei and Sai hunh?" Naruto smirked. Right on cue the other two showed up.

"Naruto Sakura, it seems we have met yet again." Sai smiled. Naruto or Sakura didn't respond. "What should we do now Sasuke?" Sakura asked. "Well we try to kill them." Sasuke stated activating his Sharingan. Naruto smirked his and Sakura's eyes turning kyuubi red with slits. Their canine's grew sharper also.

Kakashi lifted his headband up revealing his Sharingan that quickly transformed to the Mangekyo. Sasuke growled his Sharingan turning to the eternal mangekyo Sharingan.

"Naruto-kun we have to be careful of Yamato." Sakura warned. "No worries, he won't get the chance to do it." Naruto smirked. The red chakra cloak started forming around Naruto and Sakura giving them 2 tails.

Sasuke smirked before his demonic looking Susanoo appeared behind him. "Are we going all out?" Naruto wondered. "No not yet. We will wait for Sanbi." Sasuke replied. "Alright lets kill them!" Naruto grinned before he and Sakura flashed away behind Sai and Yamato.

Naruto's tail's wrapped around the squirming Yamato while Sakura punched Sai forward. Susanoo readied his bow and shot an arrow at Kakashi who dodged. Sasuke jumped towards Kakashi ready to kill him.

Lee recovered and decided to help Sai out. So he charged at Sakura but before he could land a hit on her he crashed against dozens of trees. He opened his eyes to see a chakra hand holding him crushing him.

Naruto was busy with the real Yamato while crushing lee. Sakura finally grabbed Sai and swung him around like a rag doll. Sasuke was shooting arrows at Kakashi who dodged them with little ease.

Sasuke covered his left eye and glared at Kakashi. Kakashi didn't see black flames appear in his shirt. Sasuke took this chance to cast some hand signs. "Fire style: Great Dragon flame jutsu!" Sasuke breathed out 4 fire dragons that aimed at Kakashi.

Naruto jumped out of the way of Yamato's wood mallet. From the mallet a pole of wood shout out and nearly punctured Naruto. But his chakra cloak formed arms and crushed the pole.

Sakura flew up at the flying Sai who was on his ink bird. Sakura growled before forming a Rasengan in her hand and ripping it through Sai's bird.

The pale boy flipped off the bird and created another one but was surprised when Sakura smashed her chakra enhanced fist against Sai's face. The boy went tumbling and was never to get back up.

Naruto kept dodging the pillar spikes of wood that shot from the ground but before he could hit Yamato, Lee tried kicking his face. Naruto leaped out of the way and glared at him. Sakura was by his side in an instant.

"Sai's dead." Sakura announced. "What?" Yamato gasped looking over to see a dead Sai. "Kakashi! We need to pull back!" Yamato stated. Kakashi crashed his Lighting blade against Susanoo but had no luck. Sasuke was completely safe from harm.

Susanoo raised it's spirit blade and brought it down against Kakashi but he leaped back by force. "Your right we have to pull back." Shikamaru stated his shadow attached to Kakashi's. Naruto tried charging but before he knew it everyone but Sai left in a puff of smoke.

Naruto and Sakura's cloak dissipated leaving them back to normal. "Damn." Naruto muttered. Sasuke deactivated his Sharingan and walked up to his teammates. "Lets go we have a dead line to meet." Sasuke stated. The two nodded before they all ran to the lake.

In the tress watching the whole battle was a man wearing an orange mask.

'Very good Naruto. Now we can start to play.'