“Too flashy,” Sakura said, as she cracked her knuckles.<br />
<br />
“Yep,” Naruto said, “but, I wished they would have made it worth moving for.”<br />
<br />
“Naruto,” Sakura said shaking her head.<br />
<br />
“What?”<br />
<br />
“Nothing,” she answered. She turned her back to Inari as Naruto did as well and waited for the Ocean ninja to move.<br />
<br />
“Naruto,” Sasuke said, “just end this <br />
already.”<br />
<br />
“Mkay,” Naruto said with a smile.<br />
<br />
“What do mean? There’s only 3 of ya’ll and one of you can’t move,” one of the Ocean ninja said.<br />
<br />
“Oh I can’t move?” Sasuke said, and then he shimmered from his spot, and landed a powerful slicing chop to the right side of one of the Ocean ninja’s necks, while still holding the other one in his arm. “Never mind Naruto, they made me mad. They’re mine.”<br />
<br />
Naruto nodded and crossed his arms and relaxed. When one of the other ninja lunged forward drawing his kunai, he quickly discovered that Sasuke had appeared next to him, cutting off his hand at the wrist. The ninja howled in pain as did the other 9 when their hands were cut off at nearly the same instant.<br />
<br />
“Sasuke,” Naruto said, “why’d you hold back.”<br />
<br />
“I want them to suffer for thinking I couldn’t fight.”<br />
<br />
Naruto nodded, and Sakura crossed her arms, while Sasuke released the one ninja he was still holding, who collapsed in fear at Sasuke’s feet.<br />
<br />
Looking down at him, Sasuke said, “Run back to your blockade and tell them to flee and never come back to the Land of Waves, if they don’t want anything worse to happen to them than your teammates just did.”<br />
<br />
The frightened ninja nodded and ran off leaving his comrades behind.<br />
<br />
“Well, looks like your buddy doesn’t care for you,” Sasuke said, addressing the others who were still writhing in pain.<br />
<br />
“Enough already,” Sakura said. She walked up to each of them and stopped the bleeding of each ninja, but left their hands detached.<br />
<br />
“You’re such a nurse,” Sasuke said.<br />
<br />
“And you’re such a brute,” she retorted.<br />
<br />
Inari was shaking from what had just happened, but Naruto put a hand on his shoulder and Inari began to calm down.<br />
<br />
“Come on you two,” Naruto said, “let’s finish our mission.”<br />
<br />
“Right,” Sakura said, and the group <br />
continued on to the Land of Waves.