Sakura paused at the moment with the question in her head, 'Should I use the bracelet to fight that thing? I mean should one kind of weirdness be able to counter act another kind of weirdness? This wouldn't be playing with the watch, it would be trying to save Naruto and myself. But he seemed to not want me to use this unless it was an emergency... ' Her thoughts were interrupted by attacks made on herself and Naruto by the flying machines with what looked like light. But as they rolled out of the way of those light beams, she turned and looked at the deep burn marks that they made where they hit. Sakura knew that this was a time of action and started to turn the bracelet looking for a form that she could take.
Just randomly turning the fact of the device, she then slammed it down as the feeling of transformation came over her. She could feel hair growing all over her body as he eyes seemed to feel weaker and smaller, she could feel slits in her skin were opening on her neck as she was forced to bend over by the new shape that she was taking. As the final seconds of the shape shifting completed itself, she noticed that she didn't have eyes but could still see in a way with different colours mainly made up of red of bodies and green of the background. She tried to call out to Naruto that she could now help them, but all that came out were barks and yelps that sound like one of ninja dogs of the Inuzuka clan.
'I can believe that I turned myself into a dog creature. Ino would have a field day teasing me about this, I can just see her calling mutt girl or asking if I was Kiba's girlfriend. Well, I have to go save my teammate." She tried to run and discovered that this form was very fast, as she leap with great skill at the flying device as she tried to use her weight to slam down on it so that it would crash on the ground. The machine dipped down as she tried to force it down, but it was gaining a bit of high as it seemed to adapt to her being on it. On instinct Sakura used her claws to slice and dice it open as she pulled out it's inner components and caused it to short circuit. Leaping away, it then proceeded to explode in a burst of fire.
Turning to look at the second device and why it had not attacked her while she had been fighting with the first one, she noticed that the blond ninja had the second one on the defensive as he had used his Shadow Clone Jutsu again and was shooting multiple kunai at it, trying puncture the shell of the thing. He was also having the clones dodge the beams of light it had been shooting at him, which was unusual as he would have just normally let them be destroyed by the battle. She wondered for a second what it was that he was doing that before she spring into action once again, using her massive jaws to take a bit out of the final pain in the neck that wasn't on her side. She spit out the hunk of useless metal as she waited for an explosion, one which didn't come.
The former pink haired girl turn dog used the strange sight that she had to try and find Naruto, not seeing him for the clones that he created. Without a second thought, she pushed the chakra in her body to the slits in her neck, realizing the she was smelling through the slits like it was her nose. It was then that the colour of one of the figures she saw in her sight seemed to change a little from other identical forms. In her mind Sakura exclaimed, 'That must be the original Naruto, I just know it. It seems that this creature has improved sense and can detect differences easier with the more chakra is used, heck I'm even willing to be that it should be easier to resist genjutsu because my senses are fundamentally different from that of a normal human. This could be a great advantage in combat with someone skilled in those ninja arts or when searching for targets. I do wonder how I know to use my chakra this way or what the other forms have in store.'
"Sakura, is that you" Her blue eyed teammate asked her as she could only bark in reply. "This is so cool! We have to come up with names for these guys. Plus your orange just like me, except for the black stripes. You kinda look like a dog with a tiger's fur pattern, with big fangs and claws. And your fur is all spiky like my hair!"
'This is becoming my least favorite form, ' Sakura thought as she tried to decide to what to do next, when she picked up a scent that was similar to the things that they had been fighting. Only with more smell which was telling her that it was likely bigger than those that they faced. 'What are we going to do now? '
Meanwhile in the tower of the Hokage...
The Sandaime had sent out a couple of teams of ninjas out into the forest for different reasons, but for the goal of containing the troubles that were coming from the location of the troubles he sensed. The first was a fire fighting team to inspect the pillars of smoke that were coming from the trees that surrounded the village and make sure it did not reach their walls. The other team was one of ANBU black ops that were checking out the scene to see if there was an enemy influence in those locations that might have cause the trouble to weaken the leaf.
After he had left those that he could trust in charge with the situation, he turned to the crystal that he used to see beyond that which most ninjas could see. The crystal had been designed for certain jutsu that would allow remote viewing, so that a Hokage could be prepared for anything that life could throw at them as well as keep an eye on enemies who didn't know how to block the viewing. Those who did know how to block it were those with level that rivalled the five shadows of the five most powerful villages. But what he had seen in his crystal after revealing, he was starting to fear that he was losing his powers. If it wasn't for the fact that he had experienced this weirdness years ago, when he also thought that he had lost his mind.
'The other kage are going to be upset once they find out about this development, it's likely that we're going to have to fight off more attacks from the other ninja villages if some kind of deal is not made. Especially if that device is the one that I think it is, the one that we have heard rumours and legends about from our... most unique visitors. There is nothing else that it can be but the Omnitrix, the greatest weapon in the universe as well as being the most hunted weapon in the universe. This is going to bring conflict, good thing that she has Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi to aid her in these troubling times.' The hokage pulled back as he thought of the effects that would have occurred if Sasuke or Naruto had gained the Omnitrix, and was glad that it had found it's way to Sakura.
'Sakura seems mature enough on the whole to handle the power of the Omnitrix, as well as being clever enough to put the power that is behind that device to go use protecting the village and her precious people. Kakashi should also be able to teacher her how to it to the best of her abilities and protect her from danger with the training he had in the black ops as well as fighting... him.' A squid like face rose in the mind of the Hokage as the memories of one of the greatest enemies of the leaf took the centre of his thoughts.
'Could this be signs of his returned? The only being that has caused all of the villages to unite in battle with their foes on their sides so as to stop his plans. The only threat that was greater than the individual nations of the world's minor care. One of the only beings that I have come to fear. We will have to be vigilant against that threat and train that team as hard as possible if they are going to survive the times that have returned to the world.' The Sandaime took a moment to wish that his world was more united than it was as that would have given them a greater chance to fight those powerful foes from the heavens. He wondered if he should send another team out there to protect Naruto and Sakura while sending more help to take the mechanical monster down with Kakashi, but something within him had faith in the young genin that they could take down this threat.
'Still there is much that we have to do. I must find a way to inform the other village leaders without causing another ninja war over the power of the Omnitrix, especially given the fact that our treaties are not as strong as the paper that it is written on. Perhaps some deal can be made in the upcoming Chunin exams, when all of the villages send their young ninja to one village for testing to see if they are ready to rise in level. I might be able to convince them to accept a deal during the meetings for the exam that is coming up in our village. I have to choose my moves wisely while making sure that they believe that are getting the best of me while I am getting the best for my precious people.' The Hokage pulled out a scroll to start to plan out the moves that he would have to make as he continued to watch the fox boy and his now canine teammate.
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