Chapter 18 Tag Team Sakura and Ino

That night while sneaking into the castle.

"This place disgusts me." Kin said as he and the others infiltrate the Castle and found thousands of cells with numerous bones and corpus locked inside the iron bars.

"This is what a shinobi normally see daily so get used to it," Kakashi said to Kin.

"But still I am surprised that they only use normal people that can easily be knocked out as guards instead of competent shinobi," Sakura said to Kakashi.

"There." Kin said as he throws a Kunai in a random direction.

Then Mizore revealed himself as he catch the Kunai with his hands.

"Do you think that kind of an attack would work on a snow ninja?" Mizore said to kin.

"You should not underestimate me, snow ninja." Kin said.

Mizore looked at the kunai carefully and saw that an explosion tag was attached to it.

"Sakura, Ino do you want me to assist you in this battle," Kakashi asked the two. As they were not in a hurry.

"We are fine Kakashi sensei. We just have to beat this guy up and get out of this place as soon as possible. I am running out of jackets and sweaters to wear." Ino said to Kakashi.

Then Kakashi and Kin left the two with the snow ninja, Mizore.

Mizore revealed mechanical wings from his back as he flew toward sakura.

"I will take care of you first. Then I will deal with the blonde later." He said as he prepares to attack sakura with his mechanical arm.

"Shannnroooo," she said as she gathered her chakra into one of her arms as she counters with her own punch. She stopped Mizore for two seconds before getting overpowered like the last time. Then mizore noticed that two seconds was enough for the other girl to attack him as he hastily looks back. Only to discover a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it was already hit him in the back.

Sakura used two of her legs to kick him into the air before the explosive tag explode.

Only to discover that it was not enough as the smoke which came from the explosion cleared up only to find him in the air with no damage done to his body.

His mechanical arm extended as it caught ino off guard as she was grabbed by her neck and pulled towards his direction.

"Ino," Sakura yelled out.

Then Mizore threw her to the ground.

As she was launched into the ground from more than 50 meters from the air.

Ino tried to get up by she couldn't as she was hit to the floor at an immense speed from a very high place.

Sakura immediately wanted to check on her friend as she already lost the love of her life and didn't want to lose the only friend that he made in her childhood days.

But she couldn't because she was still being targeted by Mizore as a threat and if she goes near Ino while she was still hurt there was a chance that she might get fatally wounded by the enemy.

Sakura then pulled out a scroll from her ninja pouch and untie the seal. As a huge fireball appears and is launched into Mizore's direction.

"As if it would work," Mizore said before the chakra was absorbed by the armour completely.

"Now let's see how you handle this," he said as his mechanical hand transformed into a cannon.

Then it shoots up a fireball which was previously absorbed by his chakra armour towards sakura's direction.

"Sasuke Kun. Save me."She yells out before getting hit by the fireball and getting knocked out.

Mizore then grabbed Ino who was too injured to even move and Sakura who lost her consciousness as he open a cell and threw them in it.

"Damn it. If only I was more competent like Shikamaru or strong like choji." Ino growled as tears started to fall from her eyes.

"Roga san they have entered the castle. I have captured the two of them but Kakashi and the other guy are still out there." Mizore communicated with a device that was attached to his mechanical arm.

"So you got the two kunoichis. You did well. Go and join Fubuki to assist her in taking down the golden eye guy. I am a little worried that she has already been defeated by him once so if she fails this time things could be troublesome to us. However, leave Kakashi alone. I want to deal with him myself." Nadare voice was heard from the device.

"Hey what do you mean by that? I will show you that I can take care of the brat all by myself." Fubuki said from the device to Nadare.

"Fubuki. This is an order. Join with Mizore and defeat the leaf ninja." Nadare said before cutting off the communication.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Mizore then attached a sealing tag on the cell that He put sakura and Ino in. Cutting off their means for an escape.

At that time.

"Do you think Sakura and Ino could handle the snow ninjas?"Kin asked Kakashi.

"We have to hope that they could. Otherwise, our whole operation could be sabotaged. If they have more men and more information about us at their disposal our chances of winning could be significantly lowered." Kakashi told Kin.

"I see." Kin replied.

He didn't trust that Sakura and Ino could be strong enough to defeat an elite snow ninja on their own. Unlike Sasuke who he has a negative opinion of but still, believes that he can be a powerful asset to any organization that he is affiliated with or Naruto who shows destructive power strong enough to rival an elite ninja-like Kakashi with his Rasengan.

According to his research, Sakura and Ino are a liability when it comes to combat. They didn't possess a powerful skill like a Rasengan or a Chidori that can decide a match against powerful foes.

Sakura, in particular, has bad taijutsu grades and Ino specializes in Information gathering so it was even more dangerous to entrust them in a life or death situation.