Chapter 95: CH 95
Naruto ran in and grabbed Lee by his collar before dragging him off with everyone else following close behind. As they started to go back through the thick of the woods a spider tried to come from behind a tree to sneak attack them. Gai saw it coming and flipped at the massive thing with punches and kicks, "Dynamic Action!" Turning the spider into goo as they didn't break their stride, "Naruto-kun, what is the best course of action to escape?"
Naruto moved back, "Gai-sensei, watch the front, I'll keep them off of our backs. Neji, Tenten, and Lee, stay between us, Neji keep your Byakugan on, Tenten prepare some kunai with explosive notes. Take to the trees, it narrows down the angles that they can attack from."
Team Gai listened to their chunin tagalong and got themselves into position as they leapt into the branches of the forest. Naruto's knowledge of the terrain by now was second only to Anko. He knew where the majority of things of interest in the forest were and the current thing of interest was the closest exit that wouldn't take them straight into the nest of the spiders, "We need to get further south. If we head straight north or east from here we'll have to go straight through the nest to escape, that would be suicide even for me."
Gai nodded and lead the group further south. During their run, Naruto held his head in pain and fell down on a branch. Lee jumped back to help the boy to his feet, "Naruto-kun, what is wrong? Are you hurt?"
Naruto cursed to himself as he grimaced in pain, "A bunch of my clones actually fully lasted for their time limit and dispelled all at once... It's like the worst headache you've ever had hitting you all at once."
Thanking Lee as he stood back up they were distracted by Neji's shouts, "There are more coming!"
Naruto turned around to see five of the spiders jumping from branch to branch, getting ever closer. Naruto threw Lee off of his branch at his team, "Stay back! There's something I need to test out anyway..."
They all watched as Naruto let the spiders in close before making a set of hand-signs and crossing his arms in an 'x' motion while crouching, "Fuuton: Senpuu Kakusui (Wind Release: Whirlwind Pyramid)!" Standing up and stiffening all of his appendages straight out, a vicious crosswind surrounded the area around Naruto's body, catching the spiders within and sending them flying into the air, some of them cut into pieces, others missing legs, all of the survivors hissing in anger and pain.
The jutsu faded after a few seconds and he turned back to Team Gai, getting everyone moving again to stay ahead of the spiders attempting to prey on them. The genin were pretty stunned by the use of Naruto's new jutsu, but were too occupied with staying in one piece at the moment to ask anything.