Helping Hand

"Kana! I smell three people coming our way!" Maki reported.

"Shit! We just passed the halfway point, protect the medics!"

"*Sniff-Sniff* This smell… Yes, you are right, Hami-chan! Kana-chan, it's a false alarm, this smell belongs to Inoichi-san and his team!"

"Hmm… everyone hide! I'm not sure if they aren't henged to look and smell like them." Kana ordered.

"Just don't hurt them too much. It would be troublesome to explain why we killed our sensei."

"Hehehe… I promise I will mostly use the non-lethal seals."

"Mostly?" Yugao asked.

A minute later, three experienced Konoha jōnins saw a group of fifteen medics standing in the middle of a field without an escort or a lead.

"*Sigh* Why can nothing be easy? It smells like a trap from a mile away. Prepare for anything." Shikaku said.

"I sense ten other chakra sources hidden somewhere around the field. They have Chūnin levels of chakra," replied Inoichi [AN: 4 friends + Shadow clones]

"I will ready my Calorie Control Technique if the fight breaks out - additional firepower will be useful."

They did only a single step when a dense fog surrounded them. Inoichi didn't see anything further than his hands could reach.

"Shika, Chō, where are you? Can you hear me?" Only silence responded to him. He tried to sense anything, but this mist stopped his chakra from spreading further. Ten seconds later, he saw a small flash under his right feet, crouching down he noticed a seal.

"Fuck!" *Snap*

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Shikaku lost sight of his friends behind the dense fog, only silence answered his calls.

'Silencing seals?' he thought, 'I have to find the seal master quickly before he slowly kills us all.'

He felt, beneath his feet, a *Thump* of a landing kunai. He jumped back only to crash into a tree he didn't see because of fog, on its branch was placed a seal already activating itself.

'Shit, it's releasing some kind of gas! I'm losing consciousness, is it poison? They got me.'

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Chōza didn't fare much better, he dodged a kunai by jumping away, but before he landed, an earth pit opened up beneath his feet. He stopped himself from falling all the way through by making his body bigger, but he got stuck.

The fog relented, from the backs of three caught jōnins, someone was coming towards them. Chōza just now noticed his friends, the blonde was bound by ropes and looked like a laced ham, the brunette was sleeping in a rather comfortable position. As the only one with the possibility to move, Chōza used his <Calorie Control Technique>. His body slimmed down into a hunky figure, his back sprouted two blue chakra butterfly-like wings, with a loud *Rumble* he destroyed the pit he was stuck in and charged the enemy, his fist stopped right next to Kaname's face.

"Eh?" he asked.

"Hi, Chōza-san! Hahaha"

"Inoichi-san, I have a demand for not killing you!" Kaname said after liberating Inoichi from the ropes.

"*Sigh* What do you mean, it is the other way, Chō almost killed you!"

"Look at your ropes sensei, they're full of mini-explosion seals. Let's not talk about your sleeping friend, his head landed on a poison seal. Chōza-san was in a pit with seals on the bottom that would shoot a hail of weapons on him, Hahaha."

[AN: Yeah as I said before - seals are OP as fck :-)]

"You… you are hopeless… Good job, either way, Kana-chan." Inoichi stated.

"Yeah, she is... What do you want of us, Kaname-chan?" Chōza asked.

"I have a single demand. I want Chōza-san to teach me this trick with butterfly chakra wings!"

"*Pft* Hahaha, let's talk about this after the war, Kaname-chan, okay?" the Akimichi replied, trying to hide his laughter.

"Sure. Now, why are you here?" Kaname asked.

"We need three best medics, we can't wait for all of you to get there on your own, our situation on the west is critical. We have only two ninjas left that know the <Mystical Palm> there. Which ones are the best medics?" Inoichi explained.

"I'm the best medic of this team, Inoichi-san."

"You? Ah, right… How much did you train in iryōjutsu?"

"Hehe, for the last year? Not sure, 13-14 hours a day? The rest I spent on sparing and sleeping."

"*Sigh*" The blonde massaged his forehead, "That's so like you... Okay, chose two other medics, and go to Kusa asap, we will escort the rest of the medics …" he whispered to himself "With her development speed, she will leave all of us in the dust in three to four years…"

[AN: She will now slow down a little as the Kyuubi's attack on Konoha is getting closer]

"Hichigoro-san!" Kaname called, "Bring me the third-best medic we got here, we need to go!"

Kaname saw her friends talking with their sensei, Hichigoro brought a young blonde woman her name was Nonō Yakushi, Takeshi gave the woman a piggyback ride, the team ready they bolted west, almost three times faster than before.

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At the same time, at the frontline at Kusa, two teenage girls stood side-by-side, repelling the attacks of their enemies. One of them had hips-long straight black hair, her body showed many curves in the right places. On her beautiful porcelain-like face, two white pupilless eyes surrounded by bulging veins were watching her enemy movements.

The second girl was taller than her friend, she had dark-short hair with a spiky, fanned ponytail. She wore a sleeveless mesh shirt, fishnet armbands, and dark shorts. Right now, her hand shot out two snakes that killed one of her enemies.

"Misa, where is your team?!" Anko asked.

"I'm sorry, everyone was killed in an ambush, I'm the last one left." The girl replied.

"Fuck! My team got creamed as well. I don't know where Orochimaru-sama went. Don't give up, we will get through this!"

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Six hours later, Kaname saw Konoha western army camp, she swiftly located the medic tent and barged in.

"Who are you! This isn't a place for children, go away!" screamed one Chūnin striving to heal as many people as he could, but the number of casualties was overwhelming for a single iryōnin.

"Hichigoro-san, Nonō-san! Triage! Get me only those that are saveable, and with most grievous wounds, the rest of them are yours!" Kaname, seeing the throng of slowly dying ninjas, instantly took command, ignoring the Chūnin.

Inoichi, with the rest of the medics, showed up two hours later. With their help, Kaname got control over the situation, she saved at least eight lives from the brink of death. Other patients just had to wait for their wounds and bones to mend, then through the entire camp went a small tremor, with time it got only worse and worse.

"What now?!" Kaname asked, leaving the tent. On the horizon, she saw the biggest snake ever rushing full speed at the camp. Using the Sharingan Kaname noticed a white-faced man standing on top of its head with two black-haired girls in his arms.

'Anko? Fuck!' Kaname guessed, "People! We will have 2 more heavily wounded patients! Prepare the operating tables!" she ordered her medics, they didn't listen to her, they were looking at the big purple snake, "NOW!" she shouted at them.

"Kana-chan? I hoped to ssee~ your mother, but beggarss~ can't be chosserss~, Anko-chan and Missa-chan are dying, do you think you can ssave~ them?" Orochimaru asked.

"Quickly get them to the medic tent, I won't let my friends die." With a glance, Kaname saw that Misa's condition was worse, so she started with her.

'Both legs broken, left hand broken in four places, spine damaged, twenty ribs broken, five of them multiple times, internal bleeding near the kidney, no chakra whatsoever… It's… how is she alive?' Kaname pointed out all injuries her <Diagnosis Jutsu> showed. She swiftly took out a syringe and injected some kind of liquid into her Hyuga childhood friend.

"Hichigoro-san, I gave her some morphine, it should help her deal with the pain, prepare a lot of water and blood type A-. Keep her under, I will check Anko-chan now."

'Fuck! It's not much better, internal bleeding from the wound on her stomach, both hands are broken, face almost unrecognizable from the beating, chakra pathways were burned, her heart is barely beating.' Kaname took out a small seal and put it on Anko's head, with a simple hand movement, the seal activated, putting her friend to sleep.

Kaname used a jutsu called <Chakra Scalpel> instantly removing a part of her clothes at the stomach, then using her chakra powered hand she made a small incision cutting her skin.

"Nonō-san, clean the wound and mend her bowels, she will need blood type O+. I will return to you in a moment," Kaname said, returning her attention to Misa.

"Hah, I was worried there for a minute Inoichi-san," Takeshi said, "but looking at Kaname while she is at work just puts all those bad thoughts away, doesn't it?"

"Damn, she is really good. With time and experience, she will best the top medics in the world." Inoichi answered, his jaw hit the floor, watching his youngest pupil.

"Fufufu, it iss~ like watching a younger Tsunade-chan, if you assk~ me," Orochimaru added.

Kaname created three shadow clones to help her, and she began saving the lives of her two childhood friends.