Back at the Leaf Village, Shikamaru and Iruka were informed of what happened with Neji and Konohamaru.

"So I want you two to lead defensive groups around the perimeter of the village," Tsunade instructed, "We need to make sure no one else succumbs to being a slave giant."

"It was better when Oroshimaru was in control," Shikamaru said, "At least then we didn't go kidnapping people. We just fought each other."

"Drop it," Iruka said, "This is a big deal. You go get Rock Lee and Choji and take the west half of the village. I'll take Shino and go east." Iruka didn't like the possibility of fighting his old students. But he didn't have much of a choice in the matter.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------

Back with the rescue team, Naruto and Sasuke stood close to 6 feet tall, so they could keep up easily with the adults.

"And that's the move I made up," Naruto said, speaking of his size changing tackle. Kakashi blinked.

"Only Naruto would come up with that. But as long as Neji and Konohamaru are growing and dangerous, it might be useful," Kakashi thought. Shizune looked on.

"I know I can do this,' she thought.

"Kakashi, we're nearing them," Pankun said.

"Right, Sasuke, hold up for a minute," Kakashi said.

"What for?" Sasuke asked as they stopped.

"Simple, I'm going to hide in your shadow," Jiraiya said.

"What?" Sasuke said.

"Look, doing this will make us seem weaker than we are," Kakashi said, as Jiraiya preformed the jutsu, "And if Neji and Konohamaru retain their memories of the past few days, both will know Naruto's and my top reaching sizes. So we'll need an ace in the hole."

"Fine," Sasuke said before they started moving again. They moved at their fastest speeds, but once they got in Neji's vision ragne, that speed was less effective.

"Four Leaf ninja are coming," Neji said, "Kakashi, Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and a medical ninja."

"And the others?" Sasori asked.

"They're taking a longer way around and not following the paths Konohamaru and I made," Neji said.

"Get ready then," Sasori commanded. Both slaves took fighting positions. Neji was now closing in on 100 feet tall. He doubted any strike could pierce him.

As Naruto took the lead, he made a massive amount of Shadow clones and threw them the giant Neji. Neji prepared to defend when all of the clones grew to massive size and landed on Neji, overwhelming him.

Sasori watched the attack. "Boy, watch the back," Sasori said, realizing the similarity to the attack before. But it was too late, and Sasuke came from the back woods. Konohamaru readied to attack when Jiraiya came from Sasuke's shadow and summoned a toad to attack Konohamaru, while Sasuke looked for Sakura.

As Neji fended off the last Naruto, who were all clones, he stood looking Kakashi at eye level. In a moment, Kakshi used his sharigan on Neji to slow him down.

The real Naruto was staying with Shizune to protect and wait for sasuke to get back with Sakura.