Unknown Cave –
"Someone if trying to get into the cave." The orange haired man said.
"Yeah." Deidara said.
"Itachi, Kisame we don't need you now go and back up Deidara and Sasori."
"Finally some action." The humanoid shark, Kisame said.
"Yes." Said the black haired, Itachi. They both then disappeared.
Outside Unknown Cave –
"Five Pointed Barrier Seal?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah that is only a fifth of the whole seal. They are spread out over an area and protect whatever is in it." Naruto explained. He then looked up at the seal. 'Kurama how long do we have?' Naruto asked.
"Not long about 5 minutes at the most." Kurama explained.
"We won't have time to take out this seal and get Gaara in time."
As if by some divine intervention. "YOSH!" was heard from above the team. They looked up to see Team 9.
"I never thought I would be happy to hear that." Naruto smirked.
Team 9 landed on the water. "Kakashi, my eternal rival!" Gai shouted; with a thumbs up.
"Naruto, my eternal rival!" Lee shouted, mimicking Gai.
"Hey guys." Tenten and Neji said.
"You guys… and girl are just in time. We need you to go and remove four seals that are around this area." Naruto started and made the tiger seal and four clones appeared all with Kitsugan. "Follow these clones and you will be able to find them. You have you com systems, right?"
Neji then pulled down his collar to reveal a mini microphone and speaker attached to a collar. "Of course." Neji said with a smirk he then took of his pack and pulled out a spare com system and throw it to Naruto.
"Right go clones." Naruto said as he put the collar on.
Each of the clones then walked up to one Team 9. "They each took off to a specific seal.
"Ok Sakura once I have taken the seal off, destroy the boulder." Naruto said as he walked back up the boulder to the seal.
"In position." said Neji over the com.
"Same here." Tenten replies.
"Here!" Lee shouted.
"Ready!" Gai shouted.
"Ok on three." Naruto said as he and Team 9 grabbed the seals. "One… Two… Three." All of them ripped the seal off. "Quick, now Sakura." Naruto shouted to Sakura. "Clones destroy the ground of under the seal, quick."
"Rasengan!" shouted the clones. Sakura and the clones all destroyed the surface the seals were on. The boulder crumbled leaving the entrance of the cave.
"Kit, I'm sorry but Shukaku has been extracted." Kurama said in a sad tone.
"No, no." Naruto said as he looked in the cave. They others couldn't see yet.
"What, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked.
"They did it. They got Shukaku out of Gaara." Naruto said. This caused rest of the team gasp.
The sight that met him only made the situation ten times worse. In front of him was Deidara sat on the body of Gaara and Sasori next to him.
"That's right, my man, we took the Tailed Beast out and left the rest." Deidara goaded.
"At least you didn't keep me waiting for a fight." Sasori added.
"Naruto we have a problem." Lee said over the com.
"Lee what's wrong?" Naruto said into the mic.
"Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha are here. We'll keep them busy for as long as we can." Gai added.
"Now." Naruto started as he stared at the two Akatsuki members. "I'm gunna kill you." Naruto said as his voice became demonic.
"Ha, you will have to catch me first." Deidara said as he threw a small clay owl on the floor and it enlarged. Deidara jumped on its back and it picked Gaara's body up with its tail and flew towards the opening.
"Oh hell no." Naruto said as her jumped and grabbed the foot of the owl as it flew out of the opening and down the fissure.
"Hinata, you go after Naruto and back him up." Kakashi said.
Hinata nodded and turned around and took off after Naruto and Deidara.
"Ok Sakura, Chiyo. It's up to us to take out Sasori." Kakashi said as he, Sakura and Chiyo got into a fighting stance.
"Ah, Granny Chiyo, are you ready to be added to my collection." Sasori remarked pushing his arms and tail out of the cloak, ripping it to reveal a face mask under it.
"What the hell is that?" Sakura asked.
"That isn't Sasori's real body, it is a puppet called Hiruko." Chiyo explained.
"So his real body is inside the puppet." Kakashi added.
"Yes."
"So we have the advantage right? As you seem to know a lot about it Lady Chiyo." Sakura asked.
"Unfortunately, no. This puppet is different from the one I know; that shell and left arm are new. Not to mention the new hidden mechanisms. We have to destroy that thing." Chiyo explained.
"How?" Sakura asked.
"You." Chiyo said, looking at Sakura. "With the monstrous strength you have learnt from her. You have to get in close and destroy it without getting hit."
"Poison." Sakura said.
"Yes. As you know the smallest cut can be fatal. He will hit you with everything he has so to counter you must anticipate every move."
"But I can't do that."
"I know but I will help." Chiyo said as she attached chakra threads to each of Sakuras limbs and head. "I will control your movements you just supply the strength."
"Hey, don't forget me." Kakashi said as he raised his headband to reveal his Sharingan. "Let's go."
With that both Sakura and Kakashi ran at Sasori.
'Are they seriously attack me head on?' He thought as he launched his metal tail at Sakura.
However Sakura smirked as her body jumped left at the last second and his tail went crashing into the floor; Sakura then grabbed the tail and pulled. Sasori was lifted, with his tail into the air.
"Chidori!" Kakashi shouted as lightening started to spark around his hand and he thrust it into the tail, severing it.
Sakura let go of the tail and ran at Hiruko. She pulled her arm back and added chakra to her fist. "Cha!" she shouted as she punched Hiruko and destroyed the puppet.
Suddenly a bit of the cloak jumped back.
"So you final show your real body. Take off that rag I have come all this way to see my grandson." Chiyo said.
Sasori pulled the rag off to reveal his face.
"H-how? It has been 20 years and you look exactly the same?" Chiyo said it shock.
"Enough talk, I want to show you something special." Sasori said as he pulled a scroll out from his sleaze and opened it, written was the number three.
"Three?" Sakura asked.
Sasori didn't say anything as he activated the scroll and was hidden in smoke. Both Kakashis and Chiyos eyes widen at what they saw.
"I-Impossible." Chiyo said.
"What?" Sakura asked.
"Is that…" Kakashi started.
"Yes the Third Kazekage." Chiyo interrupted as revealed from the smoke was a puppet version of the Third Kazekage. "It's been ten years since he disappeared, we search everywhere but no trace was left. It was you who killed him." Chiyo finished.
"Yes Granny Chiyo it was." Sasori replied. "But I need to kill you now and then go after that jinchuuriki." Sasori said.
This caused Sakura and Kakashi to glare at him.
Sasori then manipulated his hand so the Third Kazekage rushed forward at Sakura and Kakashi. Sakura was pulled back by Chiyo and Kakashi jumped. However this was in vain as the Third Kazekage flicked his hand and blade protruded from it aimed right for Sakura.
Kakashi saw this and thought fast as he landed next to Hirukos tail. He kicked the tail where the blades were going. The tail intercepted the blade just before they hit Sakura; send them to the right of Sakura. Sakura took this opportunity and kicked the puppet the head, sending it flying back to Sasori.
"Thanks Kakashi-sensei."
The Third Kazekage then rushed the two again, but this time he thrust his right arm out in front and flaps opened to reveal seals. The seals activated and hundreds of puppet arms shot out and went straight for the two.
"Damn." Sakura said, she then started making hand signs. "Water Style: Water Wall!" Sakura shouted, as water shot out of her mouth at high speed; hitting the floor and blasting up intercepting the arms and rebounding them in all different direction.
After seeing that the water wall worked she cancelled the jutsu. However Sasori smirked at this and he flicked his finger and valve on of the arms near Sakura released a poison into the air. Sakura was caught in it but Kakashi got out the way of the cloud, Sasori saw this and flicked his hand again and an arm shot of the ground and wrapped around Kakashis leg.
Inside the cloud Sakura was holding her breath. She couldn't move as the puppet arms had grabbed her as well.
"It seems your student is going too died Kakashi Hatake. Breathe in one bit of the poison and you're a gonna." Sasori boasted.
"No is I can help it." Kakashi stared to do some hand sign, too fast for Sasori to react to them. "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" He shouted had he inhaled a huge breath the pushed it out had high speeds at the poison cloud. This caused to the cloud to dissipate from onto the wind, leaving Sakura secure by the puppet hands.
Sasori took advantage of the two being trapped and flicked his wrist and another arms shot out kunai to Kakashi and Sakura with no choice Chiyo quickly pulled out two scrolls and activated them and two puppets appeared, the red headed one in front of Kakashi and the brown haired one in front of Sakura. The kunai were imbedding in the puppet.
"So you brought them." Sasori said.
"Yes, I see you remember the very first puppets you created." Chiyo said. "The Father." The Red headed on raised its head. "and The Mother." The brown haired one raised its head.
"The Mother, The Father… Sasori's parents?" Sakura asked.
"Yes."
"Kind of pointless. Don't you think? I created them, I know all their tricks." Sasori said.
"Oh really." Chiyo said as she manipulated The Father back to The Mother. The joined hands and separated, connected by black wire.
Suddenly they both shot forward. Sasori retracted the arms but wasn't fast enough as the arms were sliced by the black wire, all Sasori could do was detach the limb and in its place a saw emerged.
The Father and The mother broke the wire and The Father brought out a wooden whip with blade and The Mother brought out a sword. The three puppets went at it meeting each other hit for hit. Both Sasori and Chiyo were a blur.
"Amazing." Sakura said.
"This is the true power of puppet masters." Kakashi said as he appeared next to Sakura. "But lets go."
Both he and Sakura ran ahead to Sasori. They both pulled out a kunai with an explosive tag on it and throw them towards the puppet master. This distracted Sasori as he had to dodge the kunai and the explosion; which gave Chiyo the advantage and was able to use The Mother to detach the saw from the Third Kazekage and The Father was able to remove the blades.
All the puppets backed up.
"Looks like I'll have to use one of my secret weapons." Sasori said as the Third Kazekages mouth opened and bits of iron started to float out of it. Both Chiyo and Kakashis eyes widened.
"No we can't let him use that." Chiyo shouted as she made The Mother and The Father push forwards.
Kakashi looked at Sakura. "Sakura do you know the Water Cannon?" He asked.
"Yeah."
"Ok, use it now."
Sakura nodded and went through the hand signs. "Water Style: Water Cannon!" She shouted as a huge cannonball of water flew out of her mouth.
Kakashi looked at the Water Cannon for a second with his Sharingan to get the chakra ratio then went through hand signs. "Lightening Style: Thunderbolt!" He shouted as lightening formed in his hand and he threw it at the Water Cannon. Upon hitting it the two jutsu merged. The Water Cannon now had sparks of lightening around it.
With no time to dodge as the puppet was fending off The Mother and The Father the jutsu hit the Third Kazekage puppet with so much force it knocked it back and with the iron conducting the lightening caused the puppet to explode.
The explosion caused half of the roof to cave in. This chucked up dirt, which mixed with the smoke from the explosion causing Sasori to disappear from sight.
Out of the smoke came a kunai, aimed straight for Sakura. She only saw it at the last sec and moved. The kunai sailed past but cut her cheek. She collapsed on to the ground. Kakashi would have rushed over but more kunai came out of the cloud, aimed for him but with his Sharingan he was able to dodge every one.
"Too bad she got hit. All of them kunai were laced with poison." Sasori said as the smoke cleared. The explosion had ripped off his Akatsuki cloak, showing what was under it. Two bladed fans coming out of his side, four scrolls in a metal holder attached to his back and what looked like a coil for metal cable in his midsection also he had a black talisman where his heart should be. He wasn't human, he was a puppet.
Chiyo looked on in shock. "You turned yourself into a puppet."
"Yes, real art is meant to last for eternity. Now I will." He said as he raised his arms and flames came out from two nozzles in his palms.
Chiyo and Kakashi thought fast and hid behind two boulders. Lucky Sakura had gotten herself behind a boulder before the flames started.
The flames kept on coming. Kakashi and Chiyo had to keep moving as the boulders the hid behind started to melt with the intensity. They both were going in in a anti clockwise direction for Sasori.
Because of this Sasori didn't see Sakura run up behind him and jump kicking him in the side of the head, sending him flying. Sasori stopped his flames and grabbed on to the ground, slowing him down until he came to a complete stop. The top scroll disappeared from his back and boiling water started to shoot out of the nozzles, straight for Sakura. She jumped back and hid behind the same boulder Kakashi was behind.
"How are you moving, the poison should have taken affect straight away?" Kakashi asked.
"It has, but I made some extra antidote back in Suna just in case and I took one." Sakura explained.
They both jumped away and the pressure from the water had caused the boulder to start cracking.
"Not this time boy." Chiyo said as she jumped from behind the boulder she was hiding behind and pulled a chakra thread. The thread pulled the Third Kazekages head from under some rubble it was under and went straight at Sasori.
He reacted fast and changed his aim so both nozzles were on the head and the pressure from the water pushed the head back to the wall and crushed it. Sakura and Kakashi used the distraction to regroup with Chiyo. The bottom scroll then disappeared as he shot out a metal cable from his midsection and shot straight at Sakura, it slashed her side but lucky the antidote was in her system so the poison wouldn't take full effect. It continued and lodged into the rock. It then started to retract, Sasori aimed for Chiyo and launched. While in the air his blade fans started to spin, like a buzz saw.
"Lady Chiyo!" Sakura shouted, as she made her way to the cable and grabbed it and started to reel it in to her to stop Sasori. She kept pulling, but Sasori got closer to Chiyo, until just before he got to her Sakura had pulled all the cable and was able to stop him.
She then pulled the cable even harder and swung it towards herself. Once he was near, she let go out the cable and punched Sasori in the chest, casing the limbs and head of the puppet to fly off in all direction.
"I… did it." Sakura said through heavy breaths.
"Yes you did, Sakura." Kakashi eye smiled at her, to which she smiled back.
She then got up and started walking towards the two. Until she heard the sound of moving wood behind her.
'No way, that's impossible.' Sakura thought as she turned round to see Sasori reassembling.
"This fight has just begun." Chiyo said as she pulled out a scroll from her pouch. "I didn't want to use this again, but against you. I must." She unrolled the scroll and made the hand sign.
The 10 seals on the scroll came to life and formed 10 puppets around Chiyo.
"Granny Chiyos famous jutsu, White Secret Technique: The Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets I heard you were able to take out an entire fortress with this collection." Sasori said. As he used a chakra thread to pull out the second scroll. "However as impressive as that is…" He continued as he threw the scroll above him as it unravelled and puppet shot out, he opened a door on his chest that had chakra inside and it formed a hundred threads and attached to the puppets as the came out.
Sakura, Kakashi and Chiyo looked up with widened and frightened eyes as they were put in the shadow of 100 puppets.
"It is nothing compared to my Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets. As I used these to destroy an entire Nation!" He finished. 'How annoying I have had to resort to my best puppets just to take out a girl, an old hag and a jounin.'
"Sakura that poison has weakened you, stay out of this." Chiyo said.
Sakura looked back at Chiyo and smiled. "It isn't like me to give up." She said as she faced the puppets.
"You truly have inherited Tsunades will and passion."
"What do you say ladies, how about we make this the finally." Kakashi said to the two nodding.
Sasori then ordered his puppets to attack as the puppets took out weapons. The three jumped into action.
Chiyo used two of her puppet to team up and attack. One wielded the other like a saw and swung it. It hit one of Sasoris and there was a power struggle for a few second before Chiyos won and decapitated the puppet and continued taking out about another 15.
Sakura was going fist to fist with them punching them left and right, completely obliterating the ones that came at her.
Kakashi was using his Sharingan to react to the movements of the puppets and was taking them out just like Sakura.
This continued. Chiyo using her puppets with kenjutsu, ninjustu and hidden weapons. Sakura and Kakashi continued to pummel them.
After a while all was running low and energy and chakra but the puppets just kept on coming. Until.
"Sand Burial!"
Suddenly all of Sasoris puppets were covered with sand.
"Sand Mass Coffin!"
All the sand crushed the puppets into dust.
Kakashi, Sakura and Chiyo were in shock and turned to the entrance of the cave to see Naruto, Hinata and most surprisingly Gaara stood there.
"Impossible. You had the One-Tail extracted, you should be dead." Sasori said in disbelief.
"Yes, should be." Gaara replied.
Naruto then walked past Gaara and into what remained of the cave and whistled. "You really did a number on this place." He then turned to Sasori. "You're going down." Naruto said as he started to run towards Sasori and his eyes whirlpooled into the Kitsugan.
Afraid, Sasori used his last scroll and more arms started to shoot out from behind him and went for Naruto. Naruto just kept running and once he was near started to jump from arm to arm continuing his approach.
He eventually got to Sasori and pushed his hand on the middle of his chest, pushing him back into the wall. "Sealing Technique: Lion Closing Roar!" A white substance came from Narutos hand and spread across Sasoris lower body and midsection and sealed him on the wall and the seal appeared around him.
Seeing him sealed Sakura, Kakashi and Chiyo relaxed and turned to the three new comers.
"You arrived just in time." Kakashi said. "Those puppets were hard work."
Naruto was walking back to the three when he noticed something move near Sakura. Seeing what is was he ran and pushed her out of the way and was stabbed with the sword through his gut.
With the speed the hood came off the assailant to see Sasori. Everyone looked shocked as they looked to the puppet sealed on the wall, Sakura, Kakashi and Chiyo noticed the black talisman missing and turned back to see it in this Sasoris chest.
Naruto grabbed the blade of the sword. "Sealing Technique: Paralysis!" He said as word started to travel up the sword and on to the body. "Quick destroy him now with this blade in me I can't hold him for much longer."
Chiyo cast most chakra thread out and grabbed two puppets. These puppets raced to Sasori and picked up two swords, once reaching him the stabbed the swords into Sasoris sides, piercing the black talisman, killing him. He slumped down but was kept up by the two puppets, the puppets were The Mother and The Father.
To Chiyo it looked similar to how Sasori used to use the puppets of his parents to hug him; when he was younger.
Kakashi and Gaara got Naruto off the sword and supported him. Hinata and Sakura came rushing over and started to use medical jutsu to heal Naruto. After a few seconds. "That's enough, Kurama will do the rest. You two have used too much charka, let's just get back to Suna and rest. We'll tell you how Gaara is alive on the way." Naruto said.
They all started to walk out of the cave, except Chiyo turned around and sealed the three puppets into a scroll. "They are finally together." She said as she walked out the cave.