This wasn't good. How she'd got into the fight in the first place, she'd no idea. But it had turned bad…

'Had enough yet?' Kabuto asked, standing above her. She looked up at him and snarled.

'No. You'll have to do more than that to get to me,' she growled, jumping to her feet.

Kabuto's hands glowed blue and Jynx braced herself. She knew about the chakra scalpel and its effects. She readied herself by pulsing her chakra over her muscles.

'Shadow Clone Jutsu!' someone yelled from high in a nearby tree, catching Jynx off guard.

'No, Naruto!' she yelled. But it was too late. Kabuto had took his chance and cut the muscles to Jynx's limbs. She dropped to the forest floor like a ragdoll and didn't move.

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'You do know what'll happen if you do that?' Jade smirked. She was in a bad situation already. Kazuku had her up against a wall with some strange contraption next to her head. After summing up the situation and analysing the strange cylindrical object with her Cyphergan, Jade resorted to using the threat of her ex-sensei killing Kazuku.

'I wouldn't count on that. I have four hearts and Hidan has no patience,' he chuckled in reply, pressing a button on the instrument. Jade fell to the floor, her head splitting with pain.

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'Why is it that people like you are such pains in the arse?' Juni asked sarcastically. She was surrounded by clones of Suigetsu and they were all making hand-signs for a jutsu she'd never seen before.

'Be quiet and sleep,' he said. Each clone forced their hands out and ten bolts of chakra engulfed Juni. When the smoke cleared, Suigetsu had vanished and Juni appeared to be sound asleep.

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'I won't let you!' Naraai yelled.

'Heh. You don't have much choice, onee-chan. If you want to stay alive, you'll let me through.' The boy snarled in reply, his blue and purple Crystalline eyes gleaming with malice. Naraai didn't budge.

'I didn't want to resort to this but… if this is what it takes…' flashing hand signs, Geraai got behind Naraai and placed a hand on the base of her spine forcefully. As she fell, everything turned to black and she landed with a thud on the hard earth.

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She'd done it again. Seriously, fighting your own self hurts. However, at least she was in her own apartment. However, it was starting to fall apart… on top of her. Worst of all she had no one that could possibly save her… she had no proper partner of her own.

As the last piece of the roof fell, Beersha's life flashed before her eyes. The last thing she saw was the shadow of a person coming through the door.

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'Oh God… What's happened to her?' Shikamaru felt for a pulse on Jynx's neck. Thank God, he thought, she's still alive. He looked around, it seemed that Naruto had gone after Kabuto or gone to complete the mission. Lifting Jynx onto his shoulder, Shikamaru thought about how light she was compared to himself.

'Ungh…' Jynx groaned. Shikamaru had noted when he'd searched for her pulse that her vocal chords had been snapped.

'So then, it must've been the chakra scalpel technique… Nasty bastard…' Shikamaru was rather concerned that he couldn't feel the pain that Jynx must be feeling.

When he got back home, Shikamaru went straight upstairs and lay Jynx down on his bed. He performed a jutsu and placed a gentle hand on Jynx's heart. As her eyes slowly closed, Shikamaru vowed to find and kill the bastard that had done this to the person he loved like his own sister.

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'I wonder where she… Jade!' seeing the limp figure sprawled in the deserted alleyway, Genma rushed over to Jade, 'Jade-hime, are you alright? Are you hurt?'

'Damned idiot… he had a fucking parasite in that thing… How was I to know..?' Jade muttered weakly in reply.

'Don't worry… You're safe with me. I'll take you back to my apartment and we'll see what we can do,' Genma picked up the contorted figure of his Partner and flashed three one-handed hand signs. In a puff of smoke he was back at his apartment.

'I don't care what abilities they have or even if they're indestructible, I'm gonna find who did this to you Jade-hime and I'm going to make them pay for it,' Genma vowed, placing the woman he loved onto his bed.

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'All this dust… I can't see a thing…' Kisame muttered. He was walking back to his home and, as he entered the cloud of dust, he tripped over something. He felt a sharp pain in his back and realised that what he'd tripped over was actually Juni.

'Asleep in a place like this? Hold on, this is induced sleep… Suigetsu,' Kisame's voice turned from a joke to a snarl as he realised that only the white-haired missing-nin Suigetsu could've induced such a sleep.

Flashing some hand signs, Kisame created a water dragon. This dragon picked Juni up and raced ahead to Kisame's home.

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'Bastard! How could you do this to her?' Temari was quite obviously enraged at Geraai, 'She's your sister. How could you be so cruel?'

'Heh. Cruel is what I've always been. It's part of the job description,' Geraai snarled.

'I'll KILL you!' Temari yelled.

'Give it your best shot!' Geraai laughed.

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'My my, she seems to have got herself a bit… damaged…' Iruka sighed. It seemed that everything had gone wrong this week.

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A/N: This is my first chapter… To me it's a bit repetitive… Please tell me what you think. Oh, the action's coming soon!