War of Demons 3

Shikamaru watched Naruto immediately hopped away from the rest of the group, weaving and bobbing around the humans and animals speedily. Luckily, his small size was useful for not being spotted that easily as the battle commenced. Shikamaru sighed. Why didn’t Naruto ever listen for the signal to go?

“Okay, everyone,” the stag demon turned to the small group. “Neji, go find Hinata. TenTen, come with me.” The hawk and owl nodded, seeing who the leader was in the situation. Neji flew off carefully but speedily, like Naruto. TenTen turned to Shikamaru, her tail feathers ruffled in excitement.

“Okay, Shika,” she used Shikamaru’s hated nickname. “Where are we gonna enter from?”

Shikamaru didn’t even glance at the village or its gates as he responded.

“We will enter from the east gate; it wasn’t guarded as well as the other gates.” Shikamaru scratched his ear lazily and kept talking. “Then we’ll scout around the shops and homes.” He shot a warning glare at the hawk when she grinned mischievously. “Then we do the same for the west gate and so on.  When we find them, I want you to take off and find back up if Naruto, Neji, Sasuke and Hinata aren’t there by then.”

TenTen gave a mock salute and Shikamaru rolled his eyes. She was a feminine Naruto. With less anger management problems. And she was a bird. Whatever.

--With Neji--

Neji’s sharp eyes pierced every small brawl to every bloodbath. Neji winced as he saw a human gut a horse demon before it could have a chance to kick his face in.

Neji looked quickly away and spotted a cat demon in her half form. The cat demon had raven fur and velvet ears with pale porcelain skin. Her tail lashed in anger as a female human stabbed another dog demon in his back leg. The cat demon pounced in fury and clawed at her face. The women ran away screaming. Neji smirked. Found her.

The owl demon swooped down and dodged and arrow or two, landing beside the raven cat and the chocolate brown furred dog. Hinata saw him, but ignored his gaze and rushed to the dog.

The dog whimpered and winced as he tried to move his leg. Neji began to feel worried. The wound looked more severe closer up. He hopped to Hinata.

“Will Kiba be alright?” he asked.

Hinata didn’t look up and closed her eyes as she replied, “Yes, Neji-Niisan. He will be fine.” She took a deep breath and placed her hands over Kiba’s leg and they began to glow the same soothing green that Sakura healed Naruto with. Kiba’s leg stopped bleeding and the wound closed. Kiba sat up and transformed to half form.

The dog demon had messy chocolate brown hair and a red tattoo on either side of his face. His tanned skin rivaled Naruto’s, which really stood out in his old village. Kiba beamed as he looked at his leg and hugged Hinata.

“Thanks a lot, Hinata!”

Hinata blushed a heavy crimson and almost fainted. She hugged him back, though. Then they broke apart and Kiba was still grinning. Hinata turned to Neji.

“What is it, Neji-Niisan?” she asked softly. Her manor and personality was completely different then when Kiba was in trouble. Neji remembered why he was here and cleared his throat.

“We need you in our group, seeing as how Sakura’s so busy already.” Neji remembered Tsunade’s orders for Sakura to be the healer for the offensive teams. “Shikamaru thinks that someone has gotten inside the village.”

Hinata’s eyes widened and Kiba almost fell over in astonishment.

“The mothers, children, and elderly are in there!” Hinata exclaimed.

“And old people!” Kiba added. Hinata sent him a ‘wtf’ look.

“Who’s in our group, Neji-Niisan?” The cat demon asked nervously.

“Shikamaru, TenTen, Naruto, you, myself, and hopefully Sasuke,” Neji answered. Kiba frowned, disappointed when he wasn’t on the list. The owl demon sent him an apology glance.

--With Naruto--

Naruto frowned in concentration as he hung from an extremely tall tree by his forepaws. He squinted as he searched through the giant crowd. The fox yipped in surprise when a lance almost hit him.

“You humans are using primitive weapons?!” He called out. “Losers!” He dodged about four more and an arrow or two. He snickered to himself and decided to shut up.

“Ah!” Naruto perked up when he saw a raven wolf about twenty meters from him. The raven wolf fought beside a seal demon.  “Found you!”

Naruto hopped into the foliage of the tree and climbed down the opposite side of the tree so he wouldn’t be seen as an easy target. He hopped off when he got close enough to the ground and almost ran into a female human. Luckily she didn’t notice him and he snuck past. He stopped a few times to help out some of his fellow demons by slitting the throat of their opponent or clawing at their feet to surprise them and make an opening. He was about to help someone else when he heard:

“BEHOLD THE POWER OF YOUTH!”

Naruto rolled his eyes. Lee didn’t need his help.

He had finally reached the seal demon that the wolf was with. She had long silver hair and her golden eyes seemed to sparkle with blood lust. She fought in half form because she couldn’t do much as a seal. She had no claws, so she used her knife.

She finished her kill and Naruto carefully approached her and called out, “Naussica!”

She turned at her name and her murder filled gaze turned soft and playful.

“Naru-chan!” she called and she ran over to hug him.

“Can’t breathe…” Naruto choked out. “In middle… of war… here…”

“Ah!” she suddenly remembered and let go of the fox. “Sorry, Naru-chan.”

“It’s okay, Naussica.” He exercised his neck and stretched his back. “Where’s Sasuke? Do you know where he is?”

Naussica stood thinking for a bit and shook her head. “No, I haven’t seen the wolf.  Sorry about that, Naru-chan.”

“You haven’t?” Naruto asked disbelievingly. “But he was right here with you!”

Naussica smiled and shook her head again. “No, no, Naru-chan. That was Sai. Not Sasuke. Though they do look alike, huh?”

“Did someone say my name?”

“Holy shit!” Both Naruto and Naussica jumped at the sudden interruption in their conversation. Naruto turned around so fast that he couldn’t for a second or two. He saw Sasuke standing behind him, an aloof smirk on his face. Naruto frowned and punched the raven wolf in the shoulder.

“Where the hell were you?!” Naruto snapped.

Sasuke put a mock concerned face on and replied, “Why, did you miss me?”

“No! See, I told Shika not to ask him. He’s a freaking ass!” He was ranting to himself by now.

“What? Shikamaru sent you?” Sasuke grew serious now.  “What happened?”

“Shikamaru thinks someone got inside the village,” Naruto answered. Right when the Naruto had finished speaking, the wolf had left for the gates, morphing into his full wolf form. “Wait for the rest of us at the gate, Sasuke!” Naruto called. Sasuke just raised a paw to show that he heard.

Naussica pushed Naruto to the ground suddenly, to Naruto’s confusion. She hopped over him and slashed the attacking human in the abdomen. Then she slashed his head open. She stepped over the twitching body and helped Naruto up.

“You need to be more inconspicuous, Naru-chan.”

“Uh… Yeah.” Naruto was still in shock and he shook it off. “Thanks…”