Naruto: Winds and Changes

'Hey, Kyuubi-chan, is this like some kind of dojutsu?'

'No, that's not a dojutsu. It's just a basic ability I have that I passed on to you. You won't be able to copy moves like the Sharingan, or gain three-hundred-sixty degree X-ray vision like the Byakugan, just the basic ability to see chakra. Because I am just a mass of chakra I am more in tune with the world around me than humans are. Seeing as how you are more or less half of what I am, you have some of my lesser abilities.'

'Ah...still a useful skill to have though.'

'Indeed.'

"Gaara, I want you to go and assist whoever is to the left. I would send the others but I think you're enough to help whoever is there and these two would probably just get in the way of your more destructive techniques." Naruto saw Gaara nod his head before using his sand to float away and towards the area his friend had given.

Naruto then turned back to the others, "We're going in hard, so keep your guard up. I'll be going in first since, no offense, I'm stronger than both of you. While I engage the enemy I want you to assess the situation and if our comrades are wounded, render first aid to them. Depending on how injured some of them are, one of you may need to escort them to Konoha."

"Hai," the two said in unison, causing Naruto to smile before they increased their pace.

Things were not going well for one Nara Shikamaru, or the ninja he had selected for this troublesome mission. From the moment he had been given his orders to retrieve Uchiha Sasuke before he could make his way to Orochimaru, he had known that the mission would not end well. And his theory was proven right, for as soon as they had caught up with the people who had likely kidnapped Sasuke they had been attacked by this weird kid who was able to use his bones as a weapon.

Both Neji and Rock Lee had stayed behind in order to deal with the bone user; however, since they had not caught up Shikamaru was assuming the worst possible scenario.

To make matters worse, the moment they arrived in this clearing they had been assaulted by a woman who could use some weird crystal jutsus to attack. So far they had no luck in retrieving Sasuke, and the Nara heir was almost positive that said Uchiha was already in Orochimaru's clutches. And even if he wasn't they still had to kill this woman, since she had set up some kind of crystal barrier that according to her would only break when she died or released the jutsu.

In other words the entire situation was troublesome.

He, Chouji and Kiba had been fighting this lady for nearly an hour now so far, they've had no luck in even landing so much as a scratch on the woman. Initially he and Chouji had tried to go with their standard strategy, he would trap her in his Kagemane no Jutsu and then Chouji would bulldoze the woman over.

Things had not gone as planned.

Instead the woman had managed to switch herself out with a Suisho Bunshin (Crystal Clone) and when Chouji smashed into it, he had gotten several dozen crystal shards stabbing into him for his troubles. He and Akamaru had been forced to defend the large Genin until Kiba had safely dragged him away since Chouji had already lost consciousness from blood loss by that time.

The three of them had then tried to use teamwork to beat her, but the woman had defeated everything they threw at her. Her crystal attacks had been able to beat back any attack that Kiba and his ninja dog made, and the one time he had been able to get in close, she had merely used a crystal shield to keep from receiving any damage. And now they were on their last rope.

Man, this is mission has gone beyond troublesome… Shikamaru thought. We haven't even been able to lay a hand on this woman, nothing seems to work, and I haven't even been able to come up with a plan to beat her. She's simply too good and powerful for anything we can do to work.

Shikamaru looked over when he heard a jutsu being called and found himself staring at a large, white, two headed wolf-dog. The thing had a baleful expression as it glared at the woman they had been fighting. Drool dripped down its two mouths, hitting the ground and hissing as it ate through the rock and dirt below, showing that it was highly acidic.

It was only a moment later before the large creature jumped into the air and began to spin, barreling towards the woman who merely smirked and went through a few hand seals.

"Shoton: Kouseki Yari (Crystal Release: Crystal spears)!" She slammed her hands onto the ground and several spears made of crystal shot out of the ground, heading straight towards the giant dog.

It was with great shock to the woman however, when the dog smashed through her crystals with relative ease and continued on its way down. She was soon forced to use a Kawarimi and replace herself with a log in order to escape the giant animal, and none too soon as the two headed dog crashed where she had just been, gouging out a huge chunk of earth and creating a large trench.

The creature stopped its spin as it stood at the end of the trench, growling as it began to sniff out the woman. Before it could find her however, a loud shout came from the left.

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