A/N: Oh, yeah people! I'm back! After my last story, I didn't have time to do another one 'till summer, but I've been writing this for awhile. It's all pre-made, except for a few chapters. I'll be changing the characters in the search, so if you search through the Naruto archives like I do, it'll be there for a week then change, so if you're interested in this, story alert it now or you'll lose it!

Yes there are many influences from all sorts of different anime/manga to list a few: Jojo's bizarre adventure, , Bleach, Rosario Vampire, and Zatch Bell plus a lot of Kung Fu movies.

But now presenting my latest story:

Soldier 6

Chapter 1: Red

The smell of gunpowder awoke me from my daydream. I used the arm guard of my shirt to wipe away my sweat. I looked up into the dusty Mars sky, it was a bloody red.

Red. I never knew I could have such a hatred for a color. Red blood spilt, red tattered flags, red land, red lasers, red oil. Just Red. I'm so sick of it, that's all I ever see anymore. As I sit in this trench, this three foot deep ditch in the ground, "protected" –and I use that word loosely—by sand bags, cement blocks, and barbwire thrown on in a hurry in some other battle that I don't know or don't want to know about. But it happened, it's there, and it's a nice place to rest, but otherwise this is what I call home. Sad isn't it?

Maybe I should introduce myself, I'm Soldier 6. I used to have a real name but I've lost most of my memory. The only reason I knew "Soldier 6" is because that what it said in my holo-band built into the left armguard of my armor. Its purpose is to hold important information such as our ranks in the military and company, a small personal computer. The year is 2150, and Earth is in the middle of a territorial war on mars. The reason we're fighting is because the Earth was hit by a large meteor in 2080, thus making the Earth look like a mostly full Crescent Moon. Humans still live there, but due do crowding we've moved onto the Moon and made colonies there. The problem is we started to crowd there too. So in an effort to move, we thought Mars would be a prime spot. We sent a rocket containing a machine called the Exous. It was 5 times larger than the Eiffel Tower and is as wide as Texas, California (height wise) and Oregon lined up in a line. Its mission was to use its large mainframe to create robots built to make the Environ-bubbles that the moon colonies needed to sustain large amounts of life. It was experimental and was not tested completely but the United Continent Embassy of Earthlings (UCEE) wanted to launch it anyways. Idiots. But Exous was Suppose to make Environ-bubbles as large as Russia.

Suppose to being the key words. It gained self-awareness and deemed Humans scum that needed to be wiped out. After transmitting to the Earth and Moon colonies it declared war, it started making War-bots. Go figure. In the 70 years since, our weapons have become more complicated and bigger. There are regular humans fighting as but the need the helmets that help regulate oxygen and body suit/armor that allows them to fight at a comfortable atmosphere. But to add to this armada, they created MWs, or Mutant Warriors. That's where I come in, given the ability to breathe on the rough Mars terrain, these warriors were the elite. Each given powers due to their genes being changed, some powers are common and some unique to the person. My powers are super-strength, speed, command over elements, in-born durability and endurance, the ability to copy anything I see, and something logged into my holo-wristband as "Wolf Spirit" But it had no description or even how to activate it. I've also been gifted with a large sword shaped like a cleaver and its hilt located near the top of the sword where the flat edge is; on the very bottom of the hilt is a large ring. It's very wide, at least 16 inches and is 5' 9" almost as tall as my 6ft body. It's a little heavy but because of my strength it's easy to carry around, the battles gave it a serrated edge.

My ranking out of 100 is 73. But there are some really strong ones that level 100. They are some scary MW's. The sad part is that there are maybe 10. This rating system doubled as a hierarchy among soldiers and the urge to rank-up. I guess I'm respected, but since I lost my memory I don't really know, anyone I see around here is Human, MW's of my rank or lower, or dead, either way I don't really care. It's that simple.

I play with the pulsar weapon in my hand, and adjust the sword on my back. I nonchalantly look over my shoulder and see "Normas" quite a ways from my position. They're small and the weakest Exous made. They're about 6 ft, and are like foot troopers, there are a lot of them and they specialize in sweep tactics and frontal assault, frontline fighting, and hold laser guns making good mid-range blasts. They overpower us in numbers but aren't that bright, mostly kill on sight. Backing them up is three land "Tanks" and an air-type one. Yippee. They're dumber than Normas but are a walking armory on wheels or wings. Large guns sported on their backs blow out larger lasers and are more of a threat, but their slow and recharge time gives you a one-minute window to duck attack or do whatever. But they are nothing compared to the next level, called "Noahs". There are MWs that are captured by the Exous and literally re-wired, usually low or mid-level that are brought in and mechanically enhanced. They then take the position as General or Admiral and not afraid to attack humans. The real scary part is that their level gets jacked up to level 85-96. I'm glad the Exous haven't figured out how to turn them to 100s or we would've lost this war. There about 20. But for some reason they aren't seen on the frontlines much. No idea as to why. Some rumors say they are stored in hyper-sleep tanks until needed.

The enemies I see aren't that much of a concern but it could be irritating if they find me. Hmm. But I guess what they say is true, you can't mix business with pleasure. Even though the Exous made some foliage before gaining self-awareness, the thick dark purple trees with the blue leaves isn't gonna provide that much cover. What an annoyance.

As I debated about giving up my location and fighting what would otherwise be small fry, or running away and somewhat guaranteeing my survival if they don't see my of course. Decisions, decisions. But luckily for me, that decision was made for me, I see another one of our soldiers calmly walk up to them, almost as if he doesn't see them. Using my holo-band I do a generic scan, showing the enemies in the area and the soldier. He's a level 53 MW, but he's as big as a 15 year-old. It isn't long before they open fire, he raises a hand and the sand on the ground jumped up, blocking the lasers. I'm stunned, you'd think you've seen everything in war, but an incident like this was amazing. But the MW doesn't stop the surprises, the sand around him rises in harmony with his hands, he casually flips his palms towards the Exous and the sand obeys him like an attack dog. A sand tidal wave engulfs them like a fat man with donut, breaking the chassis of the machines and effectively slips inside the gashes. The air Tank is steaming, literally, it prepares a stronger laser shouting out "Blastfire" as it charges and shoots at the MW with incredible speed. Without even moving the sand around the fighter jumps up and forms a protective shield, just in time too. It negates the large blast while the rest of it burns and displaces the landscape. A large explosion rips out from the shot being blocked and a shockwave knocks me back from my seat. I can't breathe for a moment while my body corrects the rhythm in my diaphragm before I go back watching the epic battle before me. The sand didn't have a burn, and it transforms from a sphere to a claw with purple coloring and marks. I swear I could hear laughing, was the MW actually enjoying this? He imitates the claw with his right hand and shoots it forward, like a puppet the sand followed its master, when the fighter brought down his hands, it came crashing down, slashing through the Tank's hull, electricity discharges and it explodes, taking out some Normas, paralyzed because of the sand gumming up it's inner workings.

The other two tanks look at each other, assessing the situation; they cock their turrets and fire a barrage of shots. The sand creates a sand in front of the running MW, using his hands to collect more and more sand. He jumps up into the air and raises his hands above his head, once he's higher than the Tanks, another laugh, and he buries his opponents, the shear weight crushing them like soda cans.

I come out from the trench and approach the MW who I can now see is a boy. He notices me from a distance; my guess is that he can use the sand like radar. Now that I get a better look at him, he seems so serious and dark. It seems impossible that he would even laugh, let alone smile. His armor is chipped and broken, covering his left leg, right knee (barely), arms, parts of his abdominals, and shoulders. The under armor covered what was exposed with rips here and there. Under armor is a durable fabric armor, or as I called it just-in-case-you-do-something-stupid-and-get-blasted. It grips the wearer tightly and is easy to move in, it improves your power and\or muscle output and doubles as light metal shielding built to withstand falls, lasers, punches, etc. the point is, it's hard to break. The bodysuit armor had a hexagonal design and tinted red. Evidence he's been here awhile and probably fights hard. He takes off his helmet, revealing that he was indeed young, his most defining features had to be his sea-green eyes rimmed with black, saying that he doesn't sleep much and red hair complete with the red tattoo on the left side of his forehead.

"Hi," I say, boy, my socializing skills have minimized since being in this war. "I'm Soldier 6 of the Kohonagakure country, 18th company, 4th division, MW rank: 73. I recite the usual manner of introduction behind my helmet. For some reason that's one of the things I couldn't forget. The boy shoots me an odd look, and I remember I have my helmet on. Oops, I take it off and catch my reflection in the eye shield, whoa, it's been so long since I've seen myself I almost forgot that too. I remember I have one red eye and one black eye, gray spiky hair, and a mask covering up to my nose.

"I am Gaara Sabaku, of the Sunagakure county, 100th company 38th division, MW rank: 53," another odd look. "Soldier 6? Is that your real name?"

"No, but I've lost my memory, but according to my information, I've been in this war 18 years and anyone who did know my name is either dead or someplace else." He nods in understanding then brushes off the sand on his armor covered leg.

"I see…" He trails off for a minute and looks at me for awhile, like he's deciding something. "If you want, you could join my group." I look at him in surprise, amazed someone with such a scary disposition even had a group.

"Sure…Thanks"

"No problem, I know what it's like to be alone." for some strange reason that comforts me.

We walked for awhile before reaching the campsite; I could see four people with their armor off. The first was a raven-haired 15 year old boy who had onyx black eyes and looked like he could have anyone he wanted, but currently looked a cross between annoyed, emo, and murderous, he was dressed in cobalt blue under armor showing some muscles, that looked like they were going to hurt the boy next to him.

He was quite the energetic one, and I'm betting that he was annoying the dark-haired one. He had spiky blonde hair with ocean-blue eyes and a large smile talking loudly and proudly about something while waving his arms clothed in a yellow under armor.

Next, is a pink-haired girl with emerald green eyes and a high forehead, she was currently rolling her eyes at the blonde's behavior. She had some muscles showing through green under armor. The last was a brunette with chocolate eyes looking quite disturbed at the blonde's cheery attitude, and dressed in white under armor. In truth? They looked like a bunch of Power Rangers. The group turned and waved at Gaara and looked with curiosity at me. I waved at them awkwardly and unsure. How do I get myself into these messes?

The blonde suddenly jumped up and shook my hand excitedly, my arm feels like it's about to fall off! "I'm Naruto Uzumaki! From Kohonagakure, 100th company 38th division, MW rank: 55! My powers are high stamina, endurance, cloning, turning my clones into weapons, and energy mastery!" He said proudly giving himself props. After my arm recovered, the dark-haired boy turned to me.

"I'm Sasuke Uchiha, the rest of here are from the same country and division, MW rank: 55, powers; Copying, lightning and fire mastery, super-speed, flying, and iron skin." I heard him distinctly sigh, I moved on, not really knowing what to make of it. The pinkette resumed this painfully long and necessary process. Hey, if you're gonna be fighting with them you better know what to watch out for.

"Sakura Haruno, rank: 52, super-strength, analyzing, healing powers, and intelligence." I nodded noting her powers down. And the last girl started.

"Ten-ten, just, Ten-ten, rank: 51, powers; well, basically anything that has to with weapons, I can analyze a weapon just by looking at it, summon them, adaptation, which is knowing how to use it just by touching it, and accuracy." An interesting mix, a weapons master, a nurse, 2 forward hitters, and a long-range specialist, that's a nice balance.

"I'm Soldier 6, also from Kohonagakure, 8th company, 4th division, rank; 73 powers: control of elements, super-speed, super-strength, can copy anything, and a good sword master." I absent-mindedly grabbed it and adjusted it out of habit.

"Rank 73!" Sasuke and Naruto asked together, I knew they were rivals by the way they glared at each other.

I turned towards the girls and Gaara, "Rivals, huh?" They nodded and laughed at those two's antics.

"18th company, that means you've been out here for 18 years," Sakura deduced.

"So long I've forgotten my name" I rubbed the back of my head in embarrassment.

"Can I see your sword?" Ten-ten asked me, eyeing my sword like a fan girl. I slung off my back and let it naturally fall, the huge weight cracking the Martian terrain. If I didn't know anything about MWs I say there was no way Ten-ten could lift such a massive sword, but she merely touched and a light emitted from her, obviously her adaptation power going to work. She took it in her hands and quickly destroyed a large boulder with a single slash. We all looked at the destruction went "Ah," and returned to whatever it is we were doing before.

When you're in this war, it's real hard to be surprised. You just get used to the constant battling and savor the moments when you aren't. Blood spills, that's what happens you just look at it and go "Oh, well" and soldier on, You'd die real quickly if you didn't manage to put up a front, or something to hold on too, so you remember what you're fighting for. A picture, a memory,-- something—or you start wondering why you're alive, and we can't have a depressed, suicidal soldier on our hands, we're trained to either beat you or kill you, because once you get shipped off to Mars, there is no return ship, not until the Exous is destroyed or the planet blows up, you choose. Fear, anger, and apathy seems to be the only thing we truly feel.

"You know if we are going to have you in our group, you're going to have to spar with us to get a good sense of your fighting style. I mean we do protect one of the toughest battle points. The one valley before the armory, and hospital outpost." Sasuke says grimly.

I feel a shiver creep its way up my spine, my senses go numb for a second, and I turn towards Sasuke my voice masking the true extent of my fear. "You mean…Death Valley?"

Death Valley. One of the toughest and bloodiest battle points on Mars, so many rumors fly around that place it'd make a general up and puke. The reason it's so bad is because a lot of deliveries are made through there, for both sides, seeing as it stretches through 1/3 of the planet. It's shaped by two large cliffs that give you ample ambush locations. So far we've secured on cliff, and 15 miles north is the other cliff, taken over by the Exous. "Aren't there like, 45 other groups watching that?"

"Yeah," Gaara replied "We rotate every few weeks. If they should somehow get our cliff, they come to this location, and climb this mountain face behind us before they get to our buildings. We were positioned here so if that happened we could stall them and call for reinforcements."

I noticed that he said 'stall' not 'stop', and I think that's an accurate word. If they get through, they'd go full force and overpower us. I looked at the mountain separating us from the building and I surmised it would take at least 30 hours to cross it, but then again the Exous aren't human, they won't get fatigued and have different levels of speed.

After some dinner, Naruto, Gaara, and I go away from the camp to get to our sparring, or evaluating as the case may be. Naruto smiled like a fox, "Okay, no holds barred, or you won't make it to standards, just try not to kill any one. The match stops if you lose your bandana, or if you take ours!" the aforementioned pieces of cloth tied around our armor, I fiddled with it to make sure it was tight, but comfortable.

We stared at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. Suddenly Naruto launched forward, creating four clones in a 'V' formation. He held out his hand towards one and it transformed into a dagger. Then a clone jumped up and came down, foot out. I grabbed its foot easily pulled him down and kneed it in the gut. I disappeared in a puff of smoke, but quickly, a fist came out of the smoke as another clone punched right through it. I turned around so it attacked the sword, and I followed through with a kick to the face. I then noticed a clone behind me as it jumped into me while changing into a large 2x4 throwing me to the ground. The real Naruto with a dagger was flinging himself forward to grab my bandana, but I quickly drew my sword, destroying the clone in the process. I came at him with a right-to-left uppercut, breaking the dagger with little force. I gripped his collar and held him in the air, "Is that the best you got, what was that?" I asked feeling victorious.

"A distraction!" The Naruto I thought was real disappeared and I looked around. Wait, where'd Gaara go? While I wondered, sand lassoes surrounded me, holding me firmly in place. I dropped my sword as the sand threatened to crush me. Gaara melted upwards, the sand rolling off him, revealing a disappointed look. He scoffed as he gripped the knot that held my bandana I place. I laughed at that moment, he looked up at me, surprised and his eyes widening, I used that moment to disappear.

"A clone!" He jumped back, but I transformed from a sword to a MW again and grabbed his leg. He summoned a block of sand to separate me from him. "I see, so acting on our own isn't gonna cut it." He melted back into the sand, and the ground trembled. A growl and then 100 Naruto clones came out of the ground like a bunch of zombies. One used the chance and punched me in the chest, sending me back through the air. I forced my foot into the ground leaving a long ditch as my leg slowed me to a stop. The other clones I destroyed before weren't that strong. I looked carefully, and saw a thin layer of hardened sand around the hands and feet, looks like it's giving them more speed and strength with Gaara supplying the sand.

It was hard to see who a clone was and who the real one was. I guess I'll have to destroy them all. I dragged my feet back and forth, creating an electrical charge; I used that to make a pathway through all the clones. I glided over the sand at high speeds following the electrons, and with the added speed I easily dispatched 40 of the clones. The sand started spiking up and almost impaling me. Now that the sand's so protective, I must be coming up on the location of Gaara. I jumped up high in the air, using my control of the wind to swirl it over my sword, I pointed my sword downwards, and the ground was starting to come up fast. When the sand penetrated the ground, I shouted "Hurricane stab!"

The wind unwounded like ripples through water, the energy ripped through everything like an explosion, effectively destroying the clones. I flew by following the wind and snatching the bandana off Naruto's neck. My attack also unveiled Gaara, blowing his protective sand everywhere. I descended and tried to backhand him, yet the sand shield interrupted me. A spike shot out, I blocked it with the wide side of my sword, using it as leverage I landed back on the ground. Gaara looked exhausted, but I guess creating super-gloves for all the Narutos spread him thin. With that shield surrounding him, another hurricane stab might not do the job. 'But… it's a gamble, but if I could do it I might win.' I thought. I jumped to the right as a wave of sand flew towards me; I flipped to my feet and readied my sword. A tail emerged from the shield as the boy yelled "Sand Bullet!"The tail whipped and shot volley-ball sized balls of sand at high speeds. Even if this is just a friendly spar, those things could leave a welt, or break a bone. I need to slow those down! I sheathed my sword quickly, and started gathering wind in one hand and water in the other, I waited for my chance.

Closer…

Closer…

Closer…

NOW!

I shot both water and wind at the same time as I yelled "Water Vortex!" The water followed and mixed with the wind shooting forward, and soaking the bullets. Gaara jumped out of the way, fearing the sand shield might deteriorate. Using the chance I activated my super-speed and caught up to him in seconds. I reached for the cloth but as I expected, the shield was going to work. I think it's time to use my ace in the hole. I touched the sand the sand in-between me and Gaara, and in a quick second it all receded. Gaara looked surprised as I grabbed his bandana. "I win."When we returned to the rest of the group, they had their mouths wide open. "Stop that or you'll be eating sand." I joked.

We went back to the others who looked like they just had their minds blown out.

"How, when –I-wha?" All of them stammered.

"When did you change into a clone and how did you control the sand?" Sasuke finally managed to put words together.

"Like I said, I can copy anything. I changed into a clone after the first clone attacked me. After I had a feel for what it felt like I changed. You noticed that I never blocked with my hands? It was a quick copy, meaning it was a bit unstable, but it got the job done. The sand took a bit longer to analyze, but it seems as if Gaara shifts his energy through every grain and control in large numbers meaning that wide spread attacks are his specialty. But it requires a constant stream of energy, so by putting in energy going in an opposite direction, I stopped the flow for a few seconds." Even after explaining they looked mystified.

"You really are a high-level." Sasuke said.

Well, we're going to need you in 2 weeks, by Friday, we're gonna be on patrol, and word is that there's going to be a Noah." Ten-ten informed us. All of us paled and shivered. It was obvious none of us had even seen one, let alone face one.

"Any idea who?" Naruto said; his earlier happy demeanor serious. Ten-ten checked the message on her holo-band, the translucent light blue screen popping up, showing a man with silver slicked-back hair, and a devilish smile. A split screen showed the same man but his skin was black with a white skull tattoo on his face, and the design traced his body representing his bones.

"His name is Hidan…says his powers are body enhancement, speed, strength, durability, carries a scythe, can use a 'curse' doesn't really go into detail, and has attacks with a graveyard theme. His level is now… 90." Ten-ten's voice kept lowering in volume and spirit with each piece of info. Looking around, the whole group lost its pep, and switched into a mode that included seriousness, hopelessness, and anger. I had to do something to lighten the mood.

"Well, I guess that means we'll have to train hard for the next 2 weeks. So who's with me?" I put my hand in the middle smiling at everyone, encouraging them to join me. Naruto put his hand in first, followed by Sakura, Gaara, Sasuke and Ten-ten. We flung our hands in the air with hardened resolve and determination, after, we turned in early; we had a big day ahead of us.

In those two weeks we all trained hard, and taught and learned new tricks and combination and personal things. You know, for example, little mental notes when interacting with each other. Like, don't tick Sakura off. Ever. Period. End o' story. While sparring Sasuke said a crude comment, next thing we know Sakura shattered the ground in a 20 yard diameter, debris flying everywhere. And Sasuke was two inches away from it being his face. I taught Sasuke how to the electric stream, a pathway of charged electrons that can get you in the enemy's face real quickly. It went smoothly since we both have lighting mastery.

Ten-ten spent most of her time working on the weapons, improving them, expanding the range and amount of ammo, upping their power concentration to make them more deadly, and building new weapons within hours.

I also got to see Naruto and Sasuke fight. No wonder they were rivals, everything they did, the other could counter. They went on an hour before one even landed a hit, or it was an all out melee without much blocking. It was exciting to say the least. But their intuition about the next attack also made them an excellent team, being synchronized perfectly made a great combo, where their attacks could only be described as art.

One night, I also found out why Gaara doesn't sleep. I had awoken because Naruto was snoring and stretching so much that his hand hit me in the head. Being thoroughly annoyed, I left the tent and went out into the cold night. Under armor sure is a nice protection from the biting winds. I saw Gaara sitting there, armor on and everything. I know he noticed me, after copying his powers I knew almost everything he could use it for. But what made this time different is that he was shaking. "Naruto wake you up?" His voice was shaky too.

"Yeah, but nothing like a night walk." I plopped myself down and got a look at his face, it was stricken with fear and sweat covered his face. "You okay?"

"Yes…no." A long sigh seemed to compose him a bit more, but his usually stoic look was completely gone. "I was created to have the upper-hand in battles, with Mars being a large, empty desert. But my radar ability never shuts off. So I can feel the thunder of the machines, sometimes I can even "see' everything. So I know exactly when someone loses their life and usually how. I can see everything. You know the saying ignorance is bliss? It's true, on so many levels."

I knew I couldn't relate to him, I've always had the ability to shut off my emotions and powers. "So you put on a strong face to protect the others from worrying about you."

"They shouldn't waste their time and energy trying to fight something they can't do any thing about."

Why does that sound familiar?

I was about to say something when my brain pulsated, a huge headache quickly overcame me, it was like a bomb went off in my head, it was so painful. I fell on the ground, gripping my head, trying to ease the pain. Gaara was looming over me shaking me in such shock. I looked up at him, and it wasn't him, it was a boy with black hair, one red eye, the other was over shadowed, and blue and orange clothes, as I looked up in utter confusion a scar in the shape of a six appeared on his face, right on his cheek."Why?" he asked in a distorted voice. "Why?" He asked louder. I blacked out.

But in a few minutes I was conscious again. Gaara looked relieved and scared. I couldn't feel the night air, instead I felt an emotion I couldn't describe, but I knew it wasn't good.

"You okay?" He asked. "There was huge vibration coming from you."

"I think it was one of my memories." Gaara looked at me with an expression I couldn't describe. He told me to go to bed, and I really couldn't argue, whatever it was it completely drained my energy. I inquired about him, but he insisted that he was fine, and that it was something he's become used to. But in all truth, I think a 15 year-old shouldn't have to be used to knowing when anyone dies. Afterwards we didn't really talk about it, I kept his secret, and some nights we just hung out not saying anything but understanding everything.

Finally the day came, we moved early and quickly to Death Valley, seeing other parties on the way, I could only assume everyone got the message about the Noah. We arrived at the cliff, many human soldiers and MWs alike looking at the other cliff full of the Exous. We all tried to wipe away any emotion and steeled ourselves for what might come, death, injury; we knew it was bound to come. After what seemed like forever, the Exous soldiers on the cliff parallel to us. Our armor was on and repaired thanks to Ten-ten going to the armory we were so desperately protecting, the armor was 70% stronger and lighter than before. I could see the Normas and Tanks crowding on the cliff, their cold, emotionless face-plates staring at us, but we knew they were staring at death.

During this time, I've never heard such silence, and such loudness. The wind wasn't blowing, the sand stayed still, but my thoughts ran rampant through my head, and I could feel tension and emotion emanating from each human. Suddenly, we all cried a battle scream ripping the serene setting. The Exous charged down, and the impact if the tank belts and mechanical feet stamping the ground, it sounded like an earthquake. Throwing our hindering emotion and caution to the wind, barreling down the cliff. I held my uzi-87 blaster, a semi-automatic laser-gun and ran straight forward. I took aim and fire three shots at the Normas in the front line, destroying two instantly and the other hit the ground before exploding, lucky for us, taking out another few Normas that just happened to be near it.

Shots were coming towards me and I fluently dodged them, I was getting close, almost to the point where I had to switch to close combat and holster my gun. I raged on, blasting as many as I could, behind me I hear more shots and cries from hit soldiers. I didn't flinch; I did what I had to. At least that's what they inscribed in my holo-band. I not sure if I put it there or if it came with the armor, but it said clearly and boldly, "It's going to be bloody, but no matter what, you must go forward." My voice in my head was repeating it, telling myself that I'm still human, well, kind of. I snapped back to reality just as a tank had its barrel in my face. Crap.

"The Power of YOUTH!" a familiar voice rung out. In an instant the barrel was crooked and shot off ten Normas to the side of it. Oh, no. A man appeared me, he was my height, strapped in spandex-tight under armor with barely any other armor on it. I paled in annoyance, if there was anything I didn't (and couldn't) forget, it was Guy. He was owner of the bowl-cut, huge eyebrows, obsession with youth, and a high level, like me. He had super-speed, strength, and good in hand-to-hand combat. He is also my "Self proclaimed Rival" even though he's 3 ranks below me. Unfortunately he doesn't know my name either, we just met in a battle one day a little after I lost my memory, but he says in the place we were born in we sparred, but I doubt it. That was mostly because of the insane score (18-70 with him in the lead my butt.). "What's the matter 6? You don't usually space out like that."

"Nice to see you too, Guy" He twitched at my apathetic attitude.

"As my rival, you can't be that aloof!" He jabbed his finger in front of my face.

"Whatever." I knew my Lackadaisical attitude annoyed the crap out of him, he's usually so gung-ho about everything, so he wants me to be too. I personally would kill myself than be like him.

"HEY!" The Tank Exous' electronic voice interrupted our conversation, "you ruined my cannon!" It raised its ruined cannon and dropped it in hopes of crushing us. We looked sideways, shooting a menacing glare at him. It was amusing to see him realize his mistake. In a split second he was kicked in the air by Guy, and I cut him into pieces, we regrouped with the falling remains of the Exous behind us.

"How rude." We both said. As we continued to fight, if that's what you call it, back-to-back both me and Guy fought off whatever Norma tried to attack us. But in reality Guy punched them out and I shot at them. We talked calmly even though we were in the middle of that mess.

"I've joined a new group." I started.

"That's good. I've been training some young ones as well, there are over there" I glanced to the east, two boys were fighting with taekwondo. One looked like a mini Guy, the other was a long haired brunette with an intense disposition. They were standing in the same position we were, and kicking and punching their hearts out.

"They're good" I commented.

"They should be! They were trained by the fabulous me!" I rolled my eyes. Just then, I felt a shiver run up my spine, looked like every Earthling could feel it. The Exous ceased fire momentarily to look towards the Exous' mountain where this feeling was coming from.

It was the Noah. Standing at the top of the mountain, I could make out a smile and focused eyes bearing down at the battle.

I sent a message to everyone via my holo-band saying, "Finish this quickly and leave the Noah to my troop-S6"

All the human soldiers and MWs pulled out all the stops to clear the battle field. Grenades going off, heavy rifle fire, dead pulled out of there, in 10 minutes time the valley was a large carnage of metal. Soldiers rushed out of there, stealing guns and ammo from the now obsolete Normas.

I regrouped with everyone in front of the mountain, everyone was pretty much unharmed, and I noticed Sakura had blood on her hands and a disappointed look on her face, but the real battle started now.

The Noah jumped all the way from the top of the mountain to 50ft from us, power was oozing out of each and every pore, and it had an almost suffocating effect. "Which……one…..wants…to…DIE!" His deep and sickly voice resonated, kicking up wind as he screamed.

"Sakura, Ten-ten, Gaara, stay back here, Sakura your medical skills will be needed, Ten-ten you provide cover us and Gaara, you cover defense." I said, already making a battle plan.

"You should stand back here too, 6." Sasuke said, "This'll be the perfect battle to up our levels." I was about to protest, but Naruto jumped in.

"Yeah, let's go all out." With incredible speed Naruto summoned out four clones. Looking past them, the Noah smiled and raised his scythe, He scratched out a circle in a 5ft diameter from him.

"You'll never make me cross this line, and if you do, well… that'll make this more fun!"

Naruto smiled at the challenge. He ran out and surrounded the Noah easily; the Noah dodged a punch coming from hid left by leaning back. The clone planted his palm in the ground, using the momentum and spun his legs around, in hopes of kicking the Noah's face. Unfortunately, the Noah ducked out of the range of the helicopter kick and punched the clone in the face. Keeping the tempo, he shot back up and elbowed another clone in the stomach. The other clones came from behind and latched on to his arms. Without wasting time, they changed into chain and balls, effectively pinning him down. The real Naruto burst forward from the sand and punched the Noah in the stomach. Breaking through the fishnet armor, but it didn't seem to mind. I barely heard a gasp before the Noah swung both the iron balls at him. Naruto showed true mastery of his clones and with a thought they turned into pillows. But that did not deter the Noah from launching a kick, thinking quickly Naruto grabbed the pillows and softened the blow. Amazingly it still had power to send Naruto many feet away and his head was about to hit the sand, using my experience I moved my hand in such a way, it softened the sand and made it look like Naruto slid towards Sasuke when I was actually transporting him back to us. He gave a quick look of thanks and stood up. "Sasuke, when you attack be careful, he seems to have metal lining his skin."

"Yeah, I saw, that punch should've sent him flying."

"Must be why he's so sure he won't move from that spot."

"I think my iron skin could have some impact, but we might have to use 'that' formation." Sasuke pulled out his black katana. I could tell they were about to do something really powerful.

"Three minutes should be enough time" Even with their backs to me, I was sure they'd kill the Noah.

Blasting forth, Sasuke got right in the Noah's circle and punched him so hard it spun around. Sasuke jumped and flipped so his face was upside down and parallel to the Noah's. He slashed the Noah, and thanks to Sasuke's iron skin, the combined weight and velocity made a slight scratch on the Noah's shoulder. Landing just outside the circle, Sasuke readied his blade. "You actually managed to scratch me…impressive." The Noah cradled its new wound with its hand.

"Yeah and that was just a warm-up," Sasuke smiled, taking advantage of the Noah's surprise, he threw another slash, this time he was serious. The Noah was going to jump back, but he realized he was at the end of his circle. My eyes picked up a hint of a desperate face, but it hardened and it crossed its arms in a guard. As the sharp sword passed the through its hardened skin a growl erupted from its mouth. Even though it was to fast for the others to see, I saw an electric bolt from the sword and discharge once it hit the Noah's legs but stayed there. The fact that it didn't immediately follow to the ground made me more curious of Naruto's and Sasuke's plan.

Right then I felt a power spike, coming from Naruto! Blue energy whirled around in Naruto's hands, gusting around. No wonder Sasuke turned the Noah around, whatever they were planning; it needs ample time, and a distraction.

"You're good." The Noah complimented just before throwing a wide swing. Sasuke ducked and grabbed on to it. Once it was parallel to the rest of Noah's body, Sasuke used both his feet and double kicked it in the face, again the Noah stopped short of the line. Counting the time passing on my holo-band, Sasuke had 45 seconds left.

"They just might win this!" I cheered.

"This is bad," Gaara said behind me.

"What do you mean?" I looked back, seeing Gaara with sweat on his face, his hands shivering; he sensed something, something bad.

"Spit it out!" Ten-ten said worrying for her friends' safety.

"His power has been slowly dropping off, at first I thought it was the wounds and the fighting, but the sand in that circle has been building up. I first noticed it when he refused to leave when Sasuke slashed his arms."

"Right, he did say present a challenge, for the sole purpose of upping the 'fun,' so why is he backing off, no slash is better than taking it." I deduced.

"And Sasuke is right in the middle, if it's some sort of trap or beam Sasuke would be injured badly." Gaara said gravely. I got into action, using my copying abilities to assess the sand.

Wait Gaara, this doesn't seem like an offensive energy, if he had to store energy, wouldn't make sense to change the fundamentals of it? Even when I attack, I have to change some of the properties if I want it to be water or fire. What I'm feeling is just pure energy."

"Alright!" Naruto screamed, his creation done. They looked like blue dragon talons extending from his fingers, they looked sharp and it emitted a blue light.

"Finally!" Sasuke yelled as he flew into the air above the Noah, he raised his hands above his head, lightning spurting from his palms.

"So your partner intends to attack from that distance? I'll jump out of the way!" He bent his knees and stood straight up. When it wasn't in the in the air, it looked down, A spiral of electricity kept it down with magnetism.

"I figured you'd do, so every time I hit you I transferred my electricity in to you, building up until I told it to release. Oh, did I forget to mention that Naruto's attack comes from underground?" At that moment, Naruto sunk his new talons into the ground, a few seconds later, a dragon head appearing below the Noah, the dragon's mouth open and teeth bearing. In tandem, Sasuke threw his arms down towards the enemy, a strong lightning bolt shooting from his palms, hitting its mark just as the Dragon snapped its mouth shut like an alligator. The Noah's blackened blood-oil spurt out. The gruesome sight would be too horrible for words to an ordinary person, but even the young warriors seem to know the sight all too well.

The electricity evaporated the blood just as soon as it hit the dragon's face. Even though the Noah was modified, it still hurt to see a fellow soldier die. As soon as the bloodcurdling scream stopped, the boys stopped their attacks. Sasuke floated down and away from the corpse. A stoic look was on his face.

A comfortable silence floated across the land, no sand picked up, no blasters in the distance, no dying cries, machinery clicking into place, no sounds of struggling, no anything. I don't know what was worse, the silence before the battle where you expect death, or after death has made its mark.

This silence had a different feel though; it scared me and calmed me. I knew why no one was talking, and even though the reason was awkward, it was still nice to not have your body react to everything.

Suddenly, we heard it… a heartbeat. It got louder and faster, it seemed to be breaking my ears.

Thump. Ba-dump. Thump-thump, ba-dump, ba-dum ba-dum…BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!

"Did you REALLY think I was DEAD!"

A/N: Ooh, cliffie! Wonder what happens next…