The sand had caused Shikamaru to lose concentration, and Gaara was free again. He smiled yet another wicked smile and formed a hand signal in front of him. He was about to attempt the sabaka kyu {sand coffin} against him, but something hapened. The sand had stopped moving. It had smelt fresh blood. And alot of it. Gaara looked over to where the sand seemed so interested. There was the girl that had asked him to go save his village. He smiled and changed direction. He walked slowly over to Cassie's crumpled body. And the sand created a giant stake behind him. He was about to impale her when he realized. She had no pulse. She must have been dead already. Gaara looked down at her pissed. Then threw the stake back at Shikamaru. Shikamaru however was able to dodge.
Neji looked down at Gaara's position. The odds had now been even, since the leaf ninja's had arrived. It was time he went back. He had healed his wounds with some of Hinata's ointment that she had given him a while back. He put the ointment back in his pocket and jumped down. Gaara had advanced towards Shikamaru, and Neji took out a kunai knife. He was about to hurl it at Gaara's position, but noticed the body. It was some girl. Neji walked over to her and checked for a pulse. He had almost given up, had he not had the byakugan to be able to sense the small, very faint, life presence. He picked up her body and slung it over his shoulder. Then looked over to the fight between Kankuro, Death, Itachi, Gaara, Sasuke and Sakura. He did'n't know where to take this stupid ninja who had gotten herself so injured. So he ran to the side of the fight and ran into the castle they were fighting at. He went inside to discover a long empty hallway. Since he was previously captive here, he had a bit of an idea how to get out. He ran down the right corridor and after maybe 7 minutes of running, bumped into the copy-ninja Kakashi-san. "Kakashi-san, she is injured" he said looking back at where he came from. He figure'd he'd go help the dropouts back there.