*Weapon sounds* *Weapon sounds* *Explosions* *Weapon sounds* *Weapon sounds* *Explosions* *Explosions* *Weapon sounds* *Weapon sounds*.
The intense sounds of weapons clashing and the noises of explosions echoing inside a gloomy, dank cave, relying only on their primal shinobi instincts to fight inside the darkness that was created by five anbu as they used their ground style techniques to trap the Suna village support team deep in the ground.
Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari were chosen by their village to give support to Konoha's call, giving goodwill between the villages and thus bringing back an alliance between the two villages after what happened in Konoha because of Orochimaru's manipulations and Sunagakure's bad decisions.
"This is annoying, and the oxygen level is being manipulated by the anbu who are adding poisons to the circulating air," Kankuro said, as he used two of his puppets to assassinate small brown earth rats that kept advancing in the direction of the trio of brothers.
"Our chakra is slowly disappearing as well," Gaara commented as he created two-meter high walls with sand that stopped the shuriken and kunai thrown from different places where he would have to jump back from the explosion of the kunai, as the humidity of the place made his sand slower, fragile and heavy.
"Give me a little time, I'm almost ready to know how this jutsu works," Temari said to her brothers as she placed the wind fan on her back with her hands and had two fingers of her hands raised so that a small wind fluttered around her fingers so that in a short time it took the shape of a wind sword that was at first glance invisible to human eyes.
"Fuuton: Wind Sword!!!". He manifested as he made two quick movements with his hand that formed a large X on the wall and quickly grabbed his fan to launch a strong blow against the earthen wall.
"¡¡¡¡AAAAAHHH!!!!."
The ground rumbles a bit, letting the earthen wall begin to crumble bit by bit, leaving a hole that a newborn baby could barely fit through.
"Tch, this is bad." Temari formulated as she watched the hole slowly close up, and turned around to tell her siblings her thoughts.
"The jutsu they used to trap us has some weak and strong points in different areas, and possibly this cave is expanding with each passing moment to transform into a large maze... Right now, the number of earthen walls we have destroyed is 20. Of which 11 walls were thinner than the others, 6 were thicker, 3 had higher regeneration, and it constantly absorbs our chakra."
"What do you suggest then!" Kankuro asked, wiggling his fingers for his puppet to perform an attack and impale the last three earth rats to clear the way.
"I came up with a few ideas, but it's up to you guys to choose the best option for our situation," Temari said as she raised her hand and began to explain her chances of escaping this jutsu.
"Like any existing jutsu it has its weakness and this maze has a way out if we choose the right path, as the walls are connected like a chakra network. It takes a lot of chakras to maintain this place, and not all of them can be maintained for long... That is why we have found many thinner walls and many thicker walls."
"You propose that we look for the exit with the short time we have, what if we run out of chakra before we find the exit or we are continuously attacked by land animals?". Kankuro.
"That's why I mentioned to them to choose!". Temari expressed annoyance, giving her brother a look of annoyance that the darkness hid.
"I don't think this is the time for this? What are the other options?" Gaara.
"The second option is to fight our way through the earthen walls, but we have to keep in mind that we could run into walls that are much stronger than others, and we would expend a lot of chakras. However, what we could try is to destroy the ceiling above us to try to climb to the floors above by destroying the ceilings that are thinner to reach the surface, but we run the risk of the floors collapsing on top of us."
Gaara thought a bit as he touched the earthen wall with his hand. "That option sounds more viable because of the amount of chakra I have, and it wouldn't be a problem to reach the surface if I try to create some sand arms that can push the earth to the side of the ground collapses on us."
"That's true, but I also have to add that every time we move from the area the traps and animals originated by the earth element also regenerate, attacking in the moments when we are more concentrated," Temari added as she held her huge fan in her hands, waiting for what option her two brothers would choose.
"Haven't you pondered on another apparent option out of those two?". Kankuro asks, knowing that his sister was the smarter one, and it was rare for her to be cornered to such an extent that she simply had only two options.
"*Sigh* The third was for Gaara to release the tailed beast and turn this maze into the sand, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a good deed for both of us and the last was for me to release my summoning beast to cut through all these walls, but we would possibly bury ourselves alive."
"I'll say no more," Kankuro said.
Kankuro knew he had asked a silly question and merely waved his hand as a sign to stop voicing his opinion and leave all the work to his sister who had more brain cells than him, even if her face was hidden by what little light the tunnel had.
The three siblings set off knowing that their time was counted more specifically for Temari and Kankuro who had a lower chakra level compared to their brother Gaara.
Temari was tasked with finding the ceilings that were fragile and using her fuuton techniques to destroy the ceiling and climb to the next floor, while Gaara protected them from the traps that were triggered by the footsteps of the three ninjas. Gaara's sand stopped the attacks of shuriken, kunai, explosive seals, earth arrows, and earth animals such as; wolves, dogs, bears, rats, bats, and small earth bugs.
Kankuro was in charge of sending his puppets to explore the path when they were in front of various paths and controlled his puppets to throw kunais to the different roofs and see which one was less resistant to climb to the next level.
The brothers were not controlled at any time by the situation they were in, and their attacks could be described as intense as the farthest walls in the background shook from time to time leaving sounds of thumping that transformed into a battlefield.
The eight anbu outside the maze were enduring the situation inside the earthen labyrinth because they were chosen by Lord Danzo to capture the Suna shinobi alive unless they were too much for them and had to kill them, perhaps their job wouldn't have been so troublesome if Sunagakure didn't send their jinchuriki.
"They are rising too fast to the surface, if they keep moving at this rate they will escape in 15 minutes or less." Commented one of the anbu as he pressed his hand on the earthen maze as his chakra left his body.
"Hold formation for five more minutes and if they manage to climb to the upper floors, activate the chakra seal we managed to accumulate inside the maze by the chakra we accumulated from them and create a stronger barrier with more death traps on the last layer."
The leader of this squad was the anbu of the Yamanaka clan, who had received information from the other anbu scattered throughout the land to capture the Suna shinobi who seemed to be hindering their mission.
The small squad consisted of 8 anbu who could hold the maze of terrain, 5 anbu who were sent to capture the sons of the future and respected clan leaders, and 2 anbu who specialized in assassination and tracking to eliminate any shinobi who tried to escape.
"Be ready for any attack or ninja to appear, and use the tailed beast reserves against them." Fu Yamanaka ordered them as he saw five anbu holding the earthen labyrinth that was shaped like a pentagon with walls 25 meters high and 150 meters long on each side.
The anbu were rotating in place, thus keeping their chakra reserves at almost 3/4 if a problem arose and more with chakra being stolen from people inside the maze.
The anbu commanded by Danzo were chosen for their high chakra reserves, their exceptional chakra control, and their near-perfect control of the earth or water element.
In this mission, they were told that they could capture one of the nine-tailed beasts using an experimental fuinjutsu they stole long ago from the Uzumaki clan that was stored in the basement of the couple Mito Uzumaki and Hashirama Senju approximately 25 years ago when Tsunade Senju escaped from Konoha.
The name of this technique was called; The fuinjutsu of the earth pentagon.
A technique that is powered by numerous seals that contain sealed inside huge amounts of chakra that help create a pentagon-shaped earth barrier and universal seals that continuously absorb the chakra of those inside the labyrinth.
The technique is activated by placing different seals in the area where you want to build the earth labyrinth and activating the seals that store chakra in the center of the labyrinth so that the victims are swallowed by a water vortex that will place them in the center of the labyrinth and keep the labyrinth activated until the victims have their chakra reserves almost depleted or are defeated by traps and beasts.
Cave points out that this technique can be very demanding because of the high chakra consumption and that the notes left by Mito Uzumaki said that the seal was created to try to capture the tailed beasts without the use of their chains and that the longer the prey is inside the maze and has high chakra reserves the stronger and larger the maze will be.
A great experimental technique that Mito and Hashirama wanted to create was to try to develop an artificial wooden labyrinth.
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Genji who had to abandon the Tenteikura skill cube thus giving support to the Suna shinobi, headed towards the earthen pentagon which was guarded by 3 anbu who were looking for any threat.
Genji stalked them for a few seconds and then silently trotted around the place, using his unfocused assault ability to blend in with the darkness and be undetectable to all people. When he was a few meters away from the maze where the sight of the anbu was almost nil, Genji disappeared in a green glow and appeared on the ceiling of the maze to analyze the jutsu.
- Very interesting, the jutsu they use holds high amounts of chakra that possibly feeds from the seals placed on each side of the pentagon, but unfortunately for them, this technique is perfect for them to be robbed of all this free chakra. It was excellent that in my free time I continuously read the scrolls of the Uzumaki clan because it is helping me in the understanding of the art of fuinjutsu -.
Genji thought as he made his way to the center of the pentagon, where small seals supplied chakra to the different walls inside the labyrinth. Being a few steps away, Genji begins to whisper.
"Let the nine allies line up by my side and become my vanguard that will protect the world from calamity..... Personal sealing chains!".
Two chains appeared on Genji's back and two on his forearms, wrapped around his arms. Genji extended his hands to be as close as possible to the seal and begin to absorb all the chakra that the anbus prepared for him and the trio of Suna shinobi had accumulated while inside the jutsu.
"I hope it takes them a while to realize that I'm stealing all this chakra, hehehe," Genji said as he removed the dryness from his lips with his tongue and watched as his two personal chains began to glow with a blue hue and blue chakra covered Genji's entire body.
[The user is adding 1000 chakra points per second].
"Excellent." He mentioned as he kept sucking the chakra from the labyrinth calmly and since he was in the range of the seal his aura was not noticed by the anbu, as the seal itself created a perfect camouflage by the aura produced by the seal of the labyrinth supplying chakra to the walls.
Genji was sucking chakra from the labyrinth-like a leech very quietly while he was causing some trouble to other people without him knowing it, but possibly he wouldn't care if he knew that Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, and the eight anbu were suffering from his actions.
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