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"No no it's… well… maybe it is… or should be."
Porume / Shozu's POV (Hidden Meeting Place of the KDA - Hidden Leaf Village)
Shozu drawled off as he stopped racing and dropped Porume roughly. "Tsunade is no joke; even together, Chama and Imuchi won't last long, and then she'll be on my trail. However, if there was a distraction that would delay a medic… perhaps a dying potential valuable prisoner…" Shozu concluded darkly.
Porume gasped as he realized Shozu's intention. He desperately began to crawl away. This Nara was insane! The Kyuubi wasn't worth this! But before he got anywhere, Porume was stopped, by a crushing blow to his back. He heard his own bones snap from the blow, and he choked as he hacked up blood. Porume attempted to look up to Shozu but was forced face down, and he couldn't. Instead, the weight and pain increased as Shozu leaned into the foot jammed into his upper back. "Now, now, don't worry, I won't kill ya, just maim you a bit. Need you alive to stop Tsunade from pursuing me." Shozu roughly ripped the mask from his face. "A traitorous big fish like a councilman is quite the bait. More than enough for them to forget about some small-time shinobi."
"I'll tell everything when they interrogate me!" Porume threatened and begged in equal measure.
"Eh, we're past that, sadly, old man." Shizo flippantly replied. "Even if you didn't, Chama or Imuchi surely will. So, no skin off my neck; the only viable course is to start the KDA over. I'll make sure this isn't the end of our dream. But sadly this will likely be the end of you."
"Please, the village needs me!" Porume begged, but it turned into a scream as he felt a searing pain surge into his arm. Whipping his head to the side, he saw Shozu wildly and violently slashing at his left arm with a kunai. The small blade was sharp but struggled to deal with bone. Porume screamed in agony as each slash cut through his skin and slowly worked its way through his bone. Porume cried and writhed, but Shozu proved too strong to escape or even free himself momentarily. The pain only increased as Porume's vision darkened. He felt distant, unaware; he heard a thud as the pain in his arm changed. It was not lessened, but it now felt less searing and more icy. Shozu lifted his foot as Porume sobbed brokenly. He attempted to clutch his left hand, but something was off; he couldn't feel it. He opened his eyes and focused past the tears and saw the grizzly sight of his arm being cut off shortly after the elbow. Blood squirting from the stump and sawed off bone peeking out.
"Enjoy the torture~!" Shozu taunted as he raced off, leaving the bleeding-out man to be discovered.
Shikamaru's POV
Shikamaru dived under a desk as a swarm of insects swooped by quickly missing him from above. This offered no true rest for Shikamaru however as the Inuzuka suddenly appeared thrusting his foot through the desk and attempting to stomp in his face. Shikamaru cursed as he threw up his leg and managed to kick away the attack, he drew a kunai at the same time and attempted to whip it for his face. The Hyuga only smiled however as he began to twirl. But Shikamaru offered his own smile as he stopped his feint of throwing the kunai and made a hand sign. Right as the Hyuga activated Kaiten Shikamaru activated a substitution with a chair near the Aburame who had kept his distance.
The shaky Aburame flinched, obviously not expecting the move. Shikamaru however had planned this from the start. Without missing a beat Shikamaru lunged forward slashing at the neck of the Aburame with the kunai. While these shinobi did not seem all that impressive the Aburame managed to leap away from the attack. Shikamaru however had expected such. Recently having cracked one handed hand signs in training he used his free hand to activate his shadow possession, in mid air from the leap the Aburame was helpless as Shikamru's shadow enveloped his. The two froze and suddenly stood in matching posture. Shikamaru smiled as he positioned the Aburame in front of him. The Inuzuka drew close once again bearing his teeth, but Shikamaru lunged to the left forcing the Aburame to do the same and to the Inuzuka's dismay, leaving him wide open. The palm thrust was normally a clubbing blow, but the Inuzuka used their claws to make it a piercing one. His hand stabbed into the chest of the Aburame with a squelch and burst of blood. The now dead Aburame slumped to the ground in front of the Inuzuka who seemed stunned. That left him wide open…
"Shadowy Grasp Jutsu!" Shikamaru called, suddenly hands burst from beneath the fallen Aburame and wrapped around the Hyuga, with a flick of his hand they proceeded to beat the man into unconsciousness. Shikamaru sighed tiredly as he checked out Tenten.
A female Inuzuka attempted to use fang over fang to smash into Tenten. But his teammate surrounded herself with a metal dome and caused the woman to smash into it headfirst knocking her out, Tenten released the shield and sent a volley of arrows flying for the other Inuzuka attempting to flank her, killing the man in the rain of arrows as the littered and pinned the man to the ground. The last attempted to blindside Tenten from behind but two katana floating around Tenten blocked their kick and managed to deflect the blow to send the man stumbling back. Tenten smiled as she formed a massive club in her hands and swung it as she spun, the club smashed into the man's ribs with force causing the man to careen through the entrance they made. Shikamaru was scarcely surprised, Tenten ever since she had fought Naruto she became a different person. More confident and powerful with her new power, she relished the chance for combat and even seemed protective over Naruto now.
Dez handled himself seemingly worse, the man offered no offense as the Hyuga and Inuzuka worked in tandem to overwhelm him. Seemingly dodging all fleeing while spewing smoke from his mouth. However Shikamaru raised a brow as he noticed both were slowing down. The dance of the two attempting to land a blow on Dez went for mere seconds yet both were breathing heavily and moving sluggishly as it went on. Before long both could barely stand leaving them defenseless as Dez gently knocked both out with chops the necks. "Sorry boys, most can't handle the smokes I tote." Dez informed the group. "Smoke Style: Suffocating Cloud."
Shikamaru nodded at the group, the rest of the police force had arrived and were already detaining the violent civilians and defeated shinobi. Before he flinched as he realized who was missing. "Where did Shozu go?"
"He must've tried to escape out the front." Tenten assured. "Meaning the poor bastard ran into Lady Tsunade."
"Let's go and see." Shikamaru said as the trio marched to the front. As they exited they saw a woman cursing wildly from the ground though noticeably not moving. Tsunade was seated on top of a defeated Akimichi resting as if bored.
"These two and two more attempted to escape." Tsunade informed the three.
"You let the other two go, Boss?" Dez asked quizzically.
"These two stayed behind to delay me, besides I sensed they should run into the other two teammates of Shikamaru, it seems Shizune and Sai made short work of the "drunkards"." Tsunade said flippantly. At her words Shikamaru smiled as Shizune and Sai arrived with a chained up man.
"Lady Tsunade!" Shizune called with a bow. "We stopped those men as requested, on the way and found this man badly wounded and dying."
"Pretty sure he's related to the others." Sai agreed with a smile. "To think Porume Rumi of the Council would be involved. It seems our friend Naruto has some impressive enemies."
"So Shozu betrayed him then?" Shikamaru asked with a raised brow. "Such a damn drag, to think this raid on the KDA was this hard and we didn't even get them all. I have the feeling this isn't over yet by a long shot…"