Team 7 arrived in Suna, and Temari personally brought them inside the village to see Kankuro.
Kankuro has been poisoned by Sasori, currently the best poison master in the world.
Sakura, who was carrying an unconscious Shiori, put her down. While Kakashi not being unconscious, has been drained of chakra amd would need a long rest.
"I will start the treatment immediately."
Konoha's medical ninjas are the best in the world by a huge margin. And as the disciple of the best medic in the world, Sakura quickly analysed the poison, and found out what ingredients must be used for preparing an antidote.
She gave the list to Temari, and found that most of the ingredients are grown in the greenhouse. Perhaps Sasori wanted to challenge his grandmother Chiyo? That's why he used a poison which's antidote can be made with the plants in Suna itself?
"The herbs are grown here."
Temari took Sakura to the greenhouse where the herbs in Suna are grown, and Sakura started preparing several antidotes.
Meanwhile, Kakashi was explaining things to Naruto that he didn't know while he was out of the village.
"Why is Hinata in the Akatsuki? I knew she was a weird girl, but she wasn't that strong. How did she even get there?"
The last time Naruto saw her, she was offering him to cheat from her test paper during the Chunin Exam.
Doesn't this means she wanted him to get caught and fail?
"During the Forest of Death exam, just like Sasuke, Orochimaru gave her a cursed mark too."
"What!?"
"It was a more ominous and powerful seal. When I tried to put an Evil suppression seal on it, it absorbed my seal itself.
It seems like it was a more powerful seal that Orochimaru was developing, still in experimental stage.
Hinata was unconscious for over three months. And you had left the village by then."
"Oh. So that's why Kiba's team failed the second stage."
"Yes. And when Hinata woke up, she didn't seem like herself anymore. She tried to kill her father, Hiashi, after which she was knocked unconscious.
When she woke up again, with several guards, including Neji surrounding and protecting her, she killed everyone."
"Neji too!? How!?"
Kakashi didn't tell him about the Hyuga's caged bird seal, especially because they are currently in Suna.
"I can't tell you the exact details, but after killing them, she dug out some graves, stole some Byakugan and disappeared.
Two months ago, she reappeared in the Hyuga clan. Killed Hiashi and her little sister Hanabi, stole their eyes, and disappeared again while we were pursuing her.
And now, she has become a member of Akatsuki..."
And Hinata wasn't just an ordinary Hyuga. The strongest Hyuga he, and even the elders and the 5th Hokage ever knew was a bit stronger than Elite Jonin.
Hyugas has never been strong individually like Uchihas. Instead, after a certain age, almost every Hyuga becomes a Chunin and has the most number of jonins out of any clan. Afterall, they don't need to awaken their Byakugan unlike the Uchihas.
While pursuing her that time, when Kakashi himself was out of the village, Guy tried to kill her, for killing his student Neji.
But, she terra-formed the entire battlefield with bones, killing most of the ANBU pursuing her, and even broke one of Guy's arm with her hard bones, and since Guy intentionally sacrificed his arm to grab her in his Seventh Gate, she disappeared in a puff.
They had been chasing a Shadow Clone the entire time.
Kakashi thought that only Orochimaru could have given her the Kaguya clan's Kekkai Genkai, just like the Kimimaro guy that came during the Sasuke Retrieval mission.
But given that she is in Akatsuki, which is hunting down Orochimaru...
Things are not as simple as they seem to be.
When she arrived, Kakashi thought that she might be connected to Shiori, for some unexplainable reason. Given that she didn't cover the battlefield with bones in which she could move freely.
But given that she was using someone else's body with a mysterious ninjutsu, it is possible that she couldn't unleash such a chakra intensive technique. That's why, Kakashi gave up being suspicious of Shiori for now.
He looked at the unconscious Shiori. Her face was fully covered by whatever her kekkai genkai is. As if protecting her.
Is it a part of her, or a symbiotic organism like the Aburame?
Given the spider-symbol on her chest, it's possible that she might be from some sort of ancient rival clan of the Aburame. You know, spiders and insects don't exactly go along.
Suddenly, she shifted, and woke up.
"Damn genjutsu..."
Well, it seems like she is weak to genjutsu. After hitting Kakashi with a strong genjutsu, Itachi must have only been able to use a normal genjutsu.
Shiori made a shadow clone, and teleported it into Konoha, saw Team Guy leaving on the gate, and approached them.
"Give this scroll to the Hokage. We need reinforcements for rescuing the Kazekage."
"We are the reinforcements."
Guy said, giving her a thumbs up.
Shiori felt weirded out, but nodded.
Guy took the scroll from her, ran to the Hokage Office, delivered it to Tsunade, and came back at the gate, where Tenten, Lee, Shino and Kiba were present.
"Alright. Grab my tentacles."
Shiori gave each one a tentacle, and teleported back to Suna.
"I brought reinforcements."
Flying Thunder God is really useful.
With Guy here too, it will be less trouble dealing with the Akatsuki!
"Bleh!"
Guy puked on a resting Kakashi, and fell down due to dizziness.
For someone who can bend time-space, Guy surprisingly has low tolerance to being teleported huh?
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In a cave, where Deidara and Sasori were extracting One-tailed beast from Gaara, Kisame arrived with Itachi on his shoulder.
Today, not only he used Amaterasu, but somehow, Kotoamatsukami at the unknown girl.
His mind raced with questions and speculations, but there was only one thing that Itachi was now sure of.
He can't use Kotoamatsukami on Sasuke as he had planned. He has checked Shisui's eye that he had, and it would take atleast a decade for it to recover its genjutsu.
He has to change his plans about Sasuke.
On the other hand, Kisame was trying to summon Samehada, but it was not working.
His sword has betrayed him!
"You two. Don't let the purple girl in Kakashi's team touch you. She has the Fourth Hokage's jutsu."
Itachi warned the two who had their real bodies present, and stopped the projection jutsu. The body didn't have much chakra left anyway. He wouldn't be able to perform even a single genjutsu, and this body can't recover chakra.
Deidara tch'ed and continued focusing on extraction Shukaku.
It seems that extracting even the first tailed beast will be difficult.