Chapter 299

"Shoton: Kasui (Crystal Release: Spike)!" The giant dog had only enough time to jump to the left as a large, nearly fifty foot spike shot straight out of the ground. Even then, it was not fast enough to get away entirely unscathed. The giant dog howled in both anger and pain as a large gash appeared on its left hind leg from getting cut up against the spike.

"Kesshō: Kyodai Rokkaku Shuriken (Crystal: Giant Hexagonal Shuriken)!" As the voice shouted again, the large dog had just enough time to look over to the left, to see the woman shooting a giant shuriken made of crystal. The giant dog did not even have time to formulate a plan of action before the shuriken impaled it in the shoulder. Before it could even howl in pain, several more stabbed into its flesh, one going through its left shoulder, one through its right front leg, and another that managed to stab into its paw.

The large dog howled in agony before it was covered in a puff of smoke, and when the smoke cleared it revealed a bloody and beaten Kiba and Akamaru. The two looked like they had been through a meat grinder. Kiba aside from the large tears in his clothes and skin also had a large hole that went clear through his shoulder and a cut that ran along his left leg. By that same token Akamaru's fur was splattered with red from all the cuts he had received, and there was an increasingly large red spot that was continuing to expand from the hole that the dog had suffered on his right front leg.

"Akamaru…" Kiba said weakly as he tried to move, only to find that he could not.

"This is pathetic," the woman said as she began to walk over to the pair. However before she could get close a large blast of white flames streaked towards her, forcing the woman to dodge.

Shikamaru turned to finally see a welcome sight as Naruto, Kankuro and Temari appeared with the latter two running towards him.

"Kitsune bi," Naruto said as he placed himself in front of Kiba, white flames burst from his body and surrounded his hands and forearms. "Sorry we're late, I would tell you I got lost on the road of life but then I would be lying."

The woman who was like all of Orochimaru's henchmen, dressed in the off white kimono that was held together by a purple bow, had dark blue hair and black eyes and looked to be two or three years older than Naruto. Guren narrowed her eyes as she looked at the whiskered blond.

"I recognize you," she glared at him, "Your name is Uzumaki Naruto, a B rank ninja who caught Orochimaru's attention during the Chunin Exams."

Naruto shivered, "Great, I've got some pedophiliac snake interested in me, that's really not something I need to hear."

Guren's eyes twitched but she did her best to ignore the blonds' last statement, "Orochimaru-sama said that if I were to ever see you that I was to kill you and bring your corpse to him so he could study it in the future."

"Sorry, but I have no interest in getting my corpse defiled by some pedophile like him," Naruto replied. "Now then, why don't you be a good girl and tell where Sasuke-teme is. If you do I might not hurt you."

The woman narrowed her eyes before smirking, "He's long gone by now, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he's already with Orochimaru-sama." I wouldn't be surprised if Orochimaru-sama has already possessed his body.

Naruto growled, "Fine, I guess I'll just have to kill you and then continue on to drag his ass back."

"You seem confident in yourself," the woman said.

"I have to be. After all, if I don't have confidence in myself then who else will?"

A Kage Bunshin phased into existence next to Naruto and rushed over to Kiba and Akamaru, lifting them as gently as possible and bringing them over to Temari and the others, "Now that they're out of the way, it's time to get started."

As the battle between Naruto and the crystal user began, the Kage Bunshin Naruto set Kiba and Akamaru down before unrolling a scroll that the original had given to him. "Temari, I need you to help me wrap these two up. Do you know basic field medical practices?"

"Of course," Temari said as she kneeled next to him and began to help patch the two up as best she could.

"Shikamaru," Said Genin looked at the Naruto clone who was still working on cleaning Kiba's wound, "I need you to tell me everything you know about this woman the boss is fighting."

Shikamaru sighed, "It's troublesome but I don't have much information to give you. All I can tell you are that her abilities seem to be based on Crystal based jutsu; I believe it is some kind of bloodline, since I have never heard of Shoton jutsu before. Her abilities are also far beyond myself and the others, as you can see we haven't even been able to lay a hand on her. I would assume her skills to be high level Jonin, she's probably around Kakashi's level if not better."

Naruto swore, "Damn…if she's that strong then I'm not entirely sure if I can beat her." Another clone phased into existence before dispelling, sending the information he had learned to the original. "All we can do now is patch up your team as best we can and get them back to the village."

(Half an Hour Earlier…)

Neji and Lee watched as odd black markings began to spread across Kimimaro's body. When the mission had started this man was the first one they had run into, and having read the reports about this particular ninja's strength from the battle others had seen when he had been fighting against the Nibi Jinchuuriki, the two had decided to stay and fight him off while the others went on ahead.

That was nearly two hours ago and both Neji and Lee were near exhaustion. Kimimaro was a taijutsu specialist much like them; however it was clear that he was superior to them. While the battle had started off simple enough, with the two Konoha ninja trading blows with the Oto shinobi, it had only lasted until Kimimaro felt he had learned all he needed to.

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