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The face of the larger oppoenent went into a hard spin towards the ground. Ryoko looked over to the Hyuuga woman. She was so cool looking albiet a bit malicious. Ryoko wasn't at an angle to see the death strikes she was landing. She'd more prefer not to kill them...she wanted to know what they were here for...what they were sent for but she wouldn't get the chance.

Ryoko then looked to the other idiot as he was trying to prep something...a ninjutsu was on its way but Ryoko had to be a bit faster than this fool or else she might not like what came from him. Her eyes flashed as she was too in the zone to really care for anything else that was going on. She slipped up onto the jutsu user and raised a strike to the mans chest. She went into a hard spin and began to weive around the man. Striking at his temple, his neck, his back and finally his head. If he continued on...even if he didn't, she moved forward and lept into the air, thrusting akick into his head and using it to bounce ehrself up into the air and spin to come down with the Taijutsu technique of Painful Sky Leg.

For such a little body she was definatly causing some damage.

Ryoko looked about at their handywork. To be sure, the Hyuuga had set up both of the main attackers with that weird wind thing she did but Ryoko was far faster at getting to them for close combat. It was an interesting pair of styles really. Yokou could cover herself emencly well if the enemy was on her but she seemed to lack the ability to approach her oppoenent at a speed fast enough to catch them off guard.

Where as Ryoko could handle her own in close range, it was her speciality after all, but not as well as Yokou. The difference was that she could get to the target much faster and deliver her payload of damage in the blink of an eye.

She began to bounce around as a few ANBU of Iwa came to collect the dead and confused. They took away the criminals for interrigation. She'd have to ask for the results later but as for now she was happy to have had a good fight. She bounced around like a child would andgrinned, "Oy yea! We beat'm baby! Yea boy!" she began to throw punches and grinned.

Her eyes then set upon the face of the Hyuuga...she stopped cold and grew quiet. She began to walk over to Akane and looke to him, "Oy...y...you ok?"

But before straightforward finishing off the woman, Yokou held back the last Juuken blows and stood aside. Her breathing came out harsh and her eyes were still flared with the Byakugan. But...as a few ANBU dropped off the rooftops to remove the intruders...she calmed down...well, enough to her usual, pensive mood. Almost... "Wait! Hokage-sama!" But Akane showed no signs of slowing down. She quickened her own pace. "A-akane!"

Ryoko...she knew it wasn't her place but she couldn't stand it. She had seen things like this happen before both for shinobi and for normal people. One leaves and they never return. Or when they finally do return, the other is lost. She couldn't bare the thought of that. Her mind began to race, thinking of when she left her husband that faithful day...when she went off to battle and left him with not but a kiss and a wink. She had told him all those things she wanted to do to him when they won the war...now...she had no one to share her warmth and love with...least not that love.

She began to move toward Akane, as she walked her form returned to her normal self and she moved to the man. Gripping his shirt, she cared not if he was a Kage or whatever. Tear streammed down her face now as she thought with her emotions rather than her mind, "You b*****d. For all that power you have not a lick of sense! These children need you. Your country needs you. Your people need you. Most of all, SHE needs you. How dare you call yourself an honorable man and yet you'd turn your back on these people so easily and quickly. You haven't even said any goodbyes. You leave like a coward and expect them to respect you for it? I've heard of the Hokage of Konoha as being some of the most honorable and strong willed men and women to ever walk the Shinobi path and here you are spitting and shitting on such a polished title. You don't deserve it if you would do this so easily!"

She released him...she had to before she hit him. Her hands were shaking...she needed to hit someone...something...anything...she couldn't bare to see someone spit on love so easily...on his own people...she spun around and smashed her fist into the side of a rock wall. A huge fissure ran up the side of it. She took a deep breath and began to walk off in disgust....

Ryoko looked to the Kage as he ranted...then collapsed. He fainted so on cue that she thought it was an act, or at least a jutsu. She stood there for a long moment and when she didn't see him stir, she began to scan the area to see if there were any suspcious people about that may have been working with the others...there was no one that she could see.

Her eyes glanced skyward to see a few ANBU who had taken up position to keep any other freaks from bothering the group...if they were there then it was a safe bet that she didn't need to worry. So that could only mean...oh crap he really had fainted. Those guys hadn't gotten ahold of him with any weapons so it couldn't have been a poison she knew of, could it?

Whatever the reason, she walked over to the Kage and lifted him up and onto her shoulder. It was an easy task, wasn't like he was a hulk of a man afte rall. She then began to walk past Yokou and looked to her, "You, follow me. Everyone else, go about your business." She barked the last part. Anyone who knew her knew not to bother her when she was in this kind of mood. The gathered crowd jumped and ran about their way.

She began to carry him to the hospital where the Hyuuga would have proper facilities to care for him.

[[exit to hospital with Akane]]

Satoshi watched the battle unfold amazed at the pure prowess in battle that the Hyuuga head shown. He silently wondered to himself if he would ever be capable of such strength in fight. It was after that fight that he watched the new Hokage rise and move to leave the village. Satoshi wasn’t sure what was going on and why all of a sudden the Hokage was leaving them. Satoshi watched as Yokou-sempai ran after the Hokage only to have the man turn right around and explain exactly what he was doing. Satoshi watched as the events unfolded surprised by the sudden exasperated collapse of the Hokage. Satoshi was shocked by what had occurred before her and wondered exactly what happened.

Satoshi moved to stand alongside his Senju sensei. He then turned to him an angry expression on his face as his hands clenched by his sides. “Zephyr-sama why is the new Hokage such a fool. I am sorry if I sound rude sempai, but who does Hokage-sama think he is? I don’t care what he says if he leaves it is just him being selfish. We refugees need someone to look up to and if he leaves then we might as well become a part of Iwagakure.” Satoshi stood firm being completely open and forward for a change. He kept his teeth clenched truly perplexed and angry at the Hokage. It didn’t matter where they lived it was true that the village was their home, but a village was not made by the place they inhabited, but by the people who lived in it. As long as Konoha shinobi were together under the Hokage then the village would be alive no matter how long it took for them to take back the village.

Cronos rushed the Crystal nin fist held as he was about 5 feet away Cronos jumped up into the air to make the attack hit harder. Cronos put the rest of energy into this attack. He punched it right in the center of its the chest, the virbations of the attack shatter the rest of the crystal nin body. Blood bursted out of the once crystal nin spattering Cronos in the face, then a glowing white ghost of the child flowed into oblivon as it vanshed. Cronos stood there breathing hard from the fight. "Good job Cronos time for the next part of your training" Cruis said with a smile on his face. Cronos sighed as he took the stance once more.