By the time I caught up to a member of the team, Chouji, he had already killed the fat guy of the Sound 4. But he was under critical condition.
"Katsuyu, send him to Hokage-sama!"
She said, "You will need to summon a bigger me."
I nodded, and poured more chakra into the Summoning Jutsu, and summoned a Chouji sized Katsuyu.
That Katsuyu swallowed him, and puffed away.
...I don't have much chakra left. Around half of my original one.
I need to catch up to Naruto to get more chakra.
Thankfully, just in time, Suna Siblings arrived.
"Are you reinforcements or?"
Temari said, "Look, Orochimaru had us fooled. He killed Fourth Kazekage. So we are definitely against Orochimaru, and Hokage-sama sent us as reinforcements."
I looked at the scroll she handed me. It looked legit.
So I hopped on Gaara's Sand on which Temari and Kankuro were also riding.
"3 O'clock from here."
Gaara nodded, and flew us there.
The next person we found was Kiba against the 2-in-1 guy. Kiba was bleeding, and the 2-in-1 guy were already in Cursed Mark Stage 2.
Kankuro hopped off the ride, "Let me finish off this guy!"
I nodded.
As we flew, the next guy we encountered was Shikamaru, and I instantly found Tayuya with my Byakugan.
"You guys head out and help Naruto and Lee!"
I jumped off, and split Katsuyu in half and shoved both of her down my ears.
It was disgusting, but what can I do?
It looked like Temari wanted to take care of it given her history with Shikamaru, but agreed since I am the leader of this mission.
As the two left, I arrived near Shikamaru and broke him out of genjutsu.
Summoning another small Katsuyu and breaking her into two, I shoved them down Shikamaru's ears.
He said something, but I couldn't hear anything.
"Let's finish this quick. Support me."
I mouthed, and used hand signs as well, and we ran towards Tayuya who was still hiding.
It doesn't seem like she has noticed that there are two of us yet.
Honestly, I wanted to capture her during the Konoha invasion, but Kabuto's poison knocked me out and I missed the whole thing.
Getting Sound Genjutsu is more important than Sasuke for me.
Gaara and Lee are there, and there won't be any Kimimaro to fight. Sasuke will be captured.
As we moved closer, Tayuya realised that Shikamaru and a reinforcement were moving, and started playing her flute while hiding.
I gestured Shikamaru to stay still.
We pretended that we were caught in genjutsu.
And just as she looked out from her hiding place, I shot Lightning Release: Lightning Balls with one-handed seal, paralysing her.
It's only a C-rank ninjutsu. And it wouldn't do much to someone who survived getting the Curse Mark. Even the second stage.
But that was enough time for me.
'Gentle Fist: 64 palms!'
In 64 consecutive superfast strikes, I shut down her entire chakra network used for fighting, and with a flash of chakra into her brain, tapped her unconscious.
Summoning a Tayuya sized Katsuyu, I shoved her down into Katsuyu's mouth.
"Tell Hokage-sama that she's alive for questioning."
The Katsuyu insode my ear said "Yes.", and the one with Tayuya disappeared.
Wait...
"We can use Katsuyu as a communication device!
Shikamaru, did anyone else have any Sound based attacks?"
Shikamaru said to Katsuyu, and Katsuyu said to me.
"One more guy was there, he was the one with Sasuke. I don't know his ability, but judging by the web traps, there is a high chance that he does."
I nodded, and we started moving towards the rest of the team.
"Was Chouji okay?"
"He was in critical condition, but I have sent him to Hokage-sama. He will be fine."
Shikamaru nodded, but still clearly worried.
I took a soldier pill to recover my chakra, and we continued hopping through trees.
"Was it wise to leave the Suna reinforcement unsupervised?"
"No. But I needed atleast one of these guys alive. We would need her to experiment on how to remove the seal from Sasuke aside from questioning.
The first guy was too strong, and the last guy probably is also very strong to be captured alive.
Besides, I trust Lee."
Shikamaru was still skeptical of my choice, but didn't question me further.
Soon enough, we saw the spider-guy dead in the way, likely killed by Lee.
Since Lee doesn't strategize much, he must have gone for quick taking care instead of wasting time in a strategic battle.
"This was the last guy. Who was carrying Sasuke in a drum."
Shikamaru said.
Since the drum isn't here... And isn't destroyed here either, meaning Sasuke didn't get out on his own...
"There must be more of Orochimaru's goons..."
Who could it be?
Kabuto?
Then it might turn very bad...
We continued to run, and came across the terrifying scene.
Temari was trapped in a crystal.
And Lee and Gaara were fighting against the filler Crystal Girl.
And Naruto and Sasuke were nowhere in sight.
Lee shouted, "Naruto has gone after Sasuke!"
I nodded.
"Shikamaru, support these two and figure out the weakness of this weird Kekkai Genkai! I am going after them!"
As I activated Byakugan and followed the trail, Crystal Girl came in front of me and smirked, "Not so fast—"
"Fuck Off!"
I punched her Tsunade style, and she broke into crystals. A crystal clone?
Still, the way was cleared and I continued on my path.
Gaara, Lee and Shikamaru should be able to tale care of her and Shikamaru should be able to figure out her weakness.
Since she is probably weaker than Kimimaro. Albeit a healthy one.
Finally, I reached to the Valley of the End, near the border of Land of Fire.
Naruto and Sasuke were having their confrontation.
"NARUTO!"
"SASUKE!"
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