There was silence in a moon lit forest clearing miles outside of Konoha, an unnatural silence and no animal or insect dared to make a sound. Then suddenly a slight rustle in the bushes near the clearing's edge and strange figures crawled out into open. They were almost four feet tall if they stood straight and tall, however they lurked around hunched over, ready to use their long fingered hands to help propel itself across the ground. Their heads were large, larger than any human, with large unblinking reflective eyes. Their gray skin looked too tight on their bony bodies causing their muscles to look very defined. Attached to the right forearm of each of these creatures was a cylindrical, green glowing, devise.

As they made their way through the clearing a pair of eyes watched them. A pair of determined blue eyes. In an explosion of movement a black clad figure, almost five feet tall, flew out of a tree and sent forth a hail of shuriken taking the creatures by surprise. Two of them went down shrieking, the devices on their arms exploding in a shower of fragments. The other immediately took action, aiming their strange devise at the almost completely covered figure and let loose bolts of green energy, firing as the figure landed and started circling them.

As shower of green death erupted around the dark figure it it pulled out several more of the deadly throwing stars and with a flip sent them flying towards the remaining creatures. Three more went down screaming but only two small explosions followed. The last standing creature let loose an angry cry before its eyes glowed a faint purple, and it locked its gaze with the figure. The figure cried out and grabbed its head in pain before growling and charging at the creature. It took a step back in what could have been surprise before the figure was upon it. With a flash of metal, a kunai was buried it the creatures neck before it was violently ripped across sending green blood spraying across the black figure.

The figure stood there breathing heavily for a moment or two before walking towards the last remain creature, lying on the ground its weapon sparking uselessly on its forearm. It looked up at the figure who stared back for a moment. Maybe in another life if things had been different, this creature might have been able to display some kind of signal that it could understand, some sign that there could be peace, trust, and understanding. But it's eyes could never convey those emotions to the blue eyes that stared back at them now. The figure raised its arm up and brought it down throwing the kunai hard into the creatures skull. Its head fell back lifelessly and its weapon fragmented like all the others.

A breeze blew in and the figure reached up pulled off the mask it had been wearing. Blond hair shifted in the wind and a young whisker marked face released a sigh. "Six more down..." His eyes traveled up towards the sky above and towards the stars. "... and so many more to go..."