"S-stay aw-way from m-me!" The Anbu warrior cried out as they slowly backed away from their assailant. The Anbu warrior's attacker simply laughed and came closer. "D-don't think I d-don't know w-who y-you r-r-really are!" They screamed with obvious amounts of fear taking control of their voice. "Good, I hope that's quite obvious." The mysterious attacker responded with a cool and relaxed tone. The Anbu ninja continued to back away until they were on the edge of the roof with nowhere to go but down. The Anbu quickly looked down and just barely managed to regain their balance. They turned to face their attacker again. "Why, are you doing this?!" The Anbu warrior shrieked at top of their lungs to the mysterious masked man. "That is for me to know… and no one will ever find out…" He smoothly replied as his voice trailed away.

"W-what…?" The Anbu's voice began to trail with fear. The mysterious masked man was walking closer and closer and the Anbu warrior had nowhere to run. "Y-you know t-that I-if I e-escape… I'll…I'll re-report you to Lord Hokage… A-and h-he'll have your p-position re-revoked." The Anbu warrior tried to warn his assailant of his abilities within his position. However, this tactic failed miserably as the eerie man continued his approach. "I'm quite aware of what you are capable of… and I'll have you know that I'm not afraid of the Hokage's power either. Besides… Even if I were to believe that there really was a threat in you… that would only give me more of a reason to properly eliminate you." He spat. At this point the man was less than two feet in front of the Anbu warrior and despite the two ninja being of equal height, the masked assailant seemed to loom over the Anbu. The Anbu warrior was in complete disbelief. 'What kind of ninja is this guy?! Here standing before me, a man who holds no fear for Lord Hokage?!' The Anbu was mentally screaming at himself to do something, anything… anything to get to safety. However, it seemed that to the Anbu warrior they had crossed that threshold of safety a long time ago… The masked man drew ever closer to the Anbu and chuckled deviously. Finally, the Anbu warrior had the courage to see eye-to-eye with the masked man, and when he did… he wished so dearly that he hadn't. Staring back at him was a cold, vicious, sharingan with the brightness of a full moon.

(Anbu's POV)

I was in awe, more than that… I was petrified. So desperately I wanted to pull out my Kunai and fight back, but my body wouldn't let me. Frozen in place all I could do was watch in fear as the man who hid his face from so many others, began to close in on me. "Is your mission to kill me?! Is that it?!" I shrieked at the top of my lungs in fear, and in rage. The masked man didn't even flinch at my outburst. All he did was take another step closer so that he was right in front of me. His sharingan was burning intensely so much into my eyes that, I couldn't look away.

I was so mesmerized by the glowing red kekki genkai that it seemed as though all my problems and fears were slipping away. I was about to give in to the power of the sharingan when I realized what a huge mistake I was making. 'What am I doing?! I'm an Anbu, I can't just throw my life away like this!' Finding even the smallest strength I had, I pulled away from the man's burning gaze and pulled out my kunai. I took my fighting position as best as I could and could hardly prevent myself from trembling in my stance. "Oh, decided to fight back now have we?" The man questioned with a hint of mockery. Taking aim, I pointed my kunai right at the man's heart. It would be tough to pull off but if I could land a hit in that general area, it would be very effective in aiding my survival. "Tch. Well then..." He started as he took his own fighting stance. "Let's see just how long your will can last." He threateningly spat. With that I prepared myself for the worst.

(No one's POV)

The Anbu warrior put up a tremendous effort so large it would put Rock Lee to shame. However, this was not enough for the Anbu to win his fight. Barely being able to breath, the Anbu warrior looked down in terror as he was incapable of freeing himself as the masked man held him in the air with a vice-like grip. "Nice try, but you should have known better than to fight me." The Anbu man made what could only be described as a choked gasping sound. "Heh, you were a pretty good fighter, I'll admit I've only seen another ninja with as much spunk as you... Do you know who that is?" The Anbu warrior shook his head in pure confusion. "W-who i-is I-it? T-the oth-the n-n-ninja?" The Anbu asked with a quivering choked voice. The masked man let out a long mocking laugh. "Ha ha ha... Why none other than..." The man let his voice fade away as he slowly pulled his mask off and finally revealed his true colors. 'Na-ru-to Uz-am-ma-ki' The mysterious man whispered but seemed to be mouthing. The Anbu let out a scared gasp. " What did you do the young boy?!" The Anbu tried to scream but just barely made out the words. The mysterious figure merely shrugged as a response. "Naruto? I've done absolutely nothing to put him in harms way purposely... Now as for you if I were in your shoes, I'd be more concerned on my own safety never mind the safety of a child who everyone knows of." The man spat with acid in his voice at the Anbu. The Anbu began to cough and hack as felt the man grip tighten around his throat. He started to spit up as he forcibly asked. "W-what... I-in t-th-the w-world... A-are y-y-you t-talking... A-about?"

The mysterious man showed a devilish smirk which revealed a small glint from his mouth. "Enough petty chat, be quiet I'm tired of your annoying voice." The man nearly growled. With this the Anbu felt a sharp pain in his throat and tried to scream in agony but nothing came out. 'He disabled my vocal cords!" The Anbu realized. The mysterious man smiled cruelly, revealing sharp dagger like fangs. 'So that's what your family has been hiding for generations?' The Anbu mentally asked his assailant. Almost as if reading the Anbu's mind the man responded calmly with " Yes, this is what we are." The Anbu desperately tried to squirm his way out of his attackers tight grip but only made it worse for himself as the man only tightened his grip even more. He then pulled the Anbu warrior close to his face and smiled his cruel smile. "And this... Is how we deal with rats" The man spat with amusement in his tone.

The Anbu's eyes widened in fear and panic as mysterious man's fangs quickly pierced his skin. The Anbu was quick to react in pain, kicking his legs furiously back and forth trying desperately to free himself but it was hopeless. 'I'm done... This is it for me... Mom, dad...everyone... I'm sorry, but I won't be coming home to see you any time soon.." The Anbu thought as he as starting to blackout from blood loss. The Anbu quickly started crying in a mix of pain, sorrow and regret. Somehow, by some sort of miracle the Anbu found his voice and began to whisper to the sky. "Why...? Was this how things were supposed to be..?" He then finally blacked out from exhaustion and blood loss. The mysterious man pulled away from his victim and looked over the warrior's semi-limp body. "Tch, even though I know you can't hear me I'll say it anyways...You were a formidable opponent and a strong one at that. Hell, you even broke free of my sharingan... Not many people can do that. I'm sorry to say that even though you clearly faced me with every thing you had, that your attempts to survive will be in vain... Well, I suppose not entirely in vain. However, I do think that it would be more cruel to simply leave you here then to kill you out right. So..." The mysterious man pulled out a Kunai blade and lifted up the near dead warrior. "I will give you the least painful death I can think of." He brought the Kunai blade up to the Anbu's pierced neck and stabbed it into the newly formed bite mark. He then took the blade out and turned the warrior around to his hair. The Mysterious man then brought the Kunai down hard in to the base of his skull severing his brain stem.

In another part of the Leaf Village a young man who came from the Sand Village for a visit to his friend was walking around a dark, gloomy corner when he heard a loud "THUD!" as he saw something fall from the roof of the building he was next to. The young Sand villager ran over to the limp figure lying on the ground. He quickly realized it was an Anbu warrior from the mask they were wearing. "Hey...Are you alright?" The warrior turned over very,very slowly. "Hey, what happned?... Are you alr...?" The man quickly stopped himself as he saw the damage that had been done. He shook the warrior again he was trembling in a panicked state. "Hey...What happened...? W-who...D-did this to you?" The Anbu was barely breathing heaving heavy gasps for life as he beckoned the Sand Villager closer. The Sand villager willingly leaned to hear the Anbu's final words. "Be...ware...T-the...m-m-man...kn-known a-a-as..." He trailed off the Anbu Warriors vision was quickly starting to fade to black. "Quickly...please tell me who's did this!" The young man panicked again. The Anbu quickly started to barely whisper the name of his killer, had it not been for there closeness the killer's name would have fallen of deaf ears. "Ka-ka-shi...Ha-ta...ke...".

Then the Anbu warrior's world went black.