Disclaimer: I do NOT own the anime/manga of Naruto. Just like every other person that has written a disclaimer for their story. Masashi Kishimoto owns Naruto. :P

Author's Note: Eventually this will become sort of a Battle Royale-type...thing. o.O I'm still deciding on if I should let you guys, the reviewers, choose who will die...But I'm not too sure yet. Enjoy my first attempt at writting. I realize that the characters will probably be a bit OOC at the begginning. And BTW I'm changing the story drastically very soon.

Added Prologue and Chapter 1 together!

Prismatic Shadows

Chapter 1: Winds of Change

The warm breeze was very much out of place in the forest situated town. The surrounding forest was ideal for hiding from enemy shinobi. A young kunoichi gazed across her village with a small smile carefully placed on her face. She knew the wind was changing and that Konoha wouldn't be this peaceful for a while. Turmoil would begin quite soon. The usual piles of mission statements recently had become smaller and smaller. Therefore the Hokage, Tsunade became drunk more often. The wind of change was dancing around and toying with her again. It just wouldn't quit would it? The young kunoichi continued think about these thoughts. These were the only type of thoughts she had been thinking of recently. Well since Uchiha Sasuke had left anyways.

She tried training to keep her mind off the loss of her dear friend and the first guy she ever liked, however his face was just imprinted into her mind and just wouldn't fade away. It was always there. With his smirk. With those confident, brooding, broken eyes, that became even more so after he activated that damn sharingan. Sakura Haruno shook her head to rid her mind of the face. She'd see it again soon enough, no mistaking it. Then just as quickly as the last one left, another came. This face was more round, had blond, spikey hair and energetic eyes. Eyes that seemed like he had placed lights in them and they would never go out. Even that perverted sannin, Jiraiya, was helping Naruto. She couldn't help but feel appriciative to him as well. Hopefully all would go well. It had to.

She leaped and landed completly silent on the ground just beside the entrance to the villiage. She couldn't stop herself from taking a quick glance to what layed beyond the gate. Still no one. A disapointed face graced her features, but just as quickly as it had appeared it had disapeared. She ran head held all the way home. It was getting late. She didn't rush getting home, in fact, she took the long route home. It was still mid-day. She had time just to walk around, or so she thought...

"Sakura-san! Tsunade-sama is looking for you!" Imediately she turned around to see Inuzuka Kiba rushing towards her with that feral grin placed on his face. When he was in front of her he took a deep breath and continued. "It's about time you got out of this place and tasted the air beyond the village. It'll do you good!" He smiled more broadly. Sharp teeth pertruding from his mouth and all. Akamaru popped out from inside Kiba's coat and gave a supporting woof.

Hah...it looks like Akamaru is smiling too...How could I resist them? She quickly nodded and gave a quick smile. They raced back to the Hokage's office at full speed.

"Argh! You always beat me!" Sakura panted as they arrived in front of the head office. "Ah! Neji-kun! Were you called to Tsunade-sensei's office for a mission too? Didn't you just get back from one? And Tenten-chan and Lee-san!" Sakura quickly placed one of her happy masks on. She knew that they knew she was still depressed about them leaving.

"Shhh." whispered Neji. "They're in a deep discusion in there, we may be able to get some additional information."

"Just come in. I'm in no mood to repeat myself. The news is not the type of news that I would like to repeat." came the calm response.

Neji was the first to recover from the sudden shock. He could have sworn he camouflaged thier position. He opened the door confidently and without hesitation. Sakura was right behind him. She had to wave her hands in front of the other's faces in order for them to to snap back to reality. She rolled her eyes and followed Neji through the door. When she finally took notice of her surroundings, her eyes instantly got larger. She couldn't believe it. There in front of her were the people who she thought she would never see again.

It was him. Holy crap, it was him. Uchiha Sasuke. He stood in the corner, eyes blank and glassy, staring out the window. He seemed to not have noticed the new presance in the room. He just stood there. Blank. He shirt was ripped on the sleeves. He had a couple of scratches on his cheek. They changed his demeanor. They would scar.

"S-Sasuke-kun!? My goodness, you're alright! Sasuke-kun..." Sakura stammered as she ran up beside him and kissed the cheek without the scratches and hugged him tightly. "Sasuke you came back."

Sasuke withdrew from his memories and looked at her. She hadn't changed one bit. Her hair was still short. Her eyes were a bit too watery for him but at that moment, it didn't matter. He missed her.As soon as she let go. He hugged her back. That one didn't last quite as long, but maybe it allow her to take a look around the room and show her that he wasn't the only one in the room that had just returned. Sakura got the message and with another look she turned around and was quite surprised at what she saw.

Naruto was injured, and he looked hilarious! His left arm, from the shoulder down to the tips of his fingers, was completly covered in bandages. He saw her looking at him and smiled. He still had that sparkle in his eyes. His face lit up and he was, once again, the Naruto Sakura remembered. She walked over to him and gave him a hug too.

Next was that irresponsible sannin Jiraiya. He was standing there, hands behind his back, smiling. Sakura guessed what he was expecting, a hug, and smiled. She stood in front of him and bowed, much to Jiraiya's dismay. However, he quickly got over it and patted her on the head. Of course, he was pretty much unharmed beyond what normal missions would do. For heavens sake, he had a bottle of sake in his hand!

Tsunade stood up abruptly "May I please tell the news?" Everyone knew that politeness wouldn't last long. "This is serious. We have recieved a letter." The whole room plastered a look of mock surprise on thier faces, well, not Sasuke or Neji (because they're to cool for that).

The Hokage regarded everyone with a look of extreme annoyance and spoke up once again. "The letter is from a group that is only comparible to the myths that you would hear about in legends. These people have been presumed dead for countless years, and with this letter, they have said that they are still living among us." She took a breath and once agin looked around the room. The faces that were there before now held expressions of shock and disbelief. Of course at this time, Kakashi took the liberty of walking in. Everyone stared at him with incredulous looks. He seemed rather unpeturbed and took his place between Sasuke and Tsunade.

"Continue on with your talk, Tsunade-dono."He smiled his upside-down-eyes smile.

"Of course, Kakashi-san. Now! Back to what I was saying before we were interupted." She shot a look of daggers at Kakashi, who didn't seem to notice."There was a letter and now we are being beckoned to attend a...competition of the sorts." Sasuke looked at the back of Tsunade's head. He knew there was something she was leaving out from the hesitation in her sentance. He was immediatly suspicious. He went back to looking out the window.

Sasuke wasn't the only one who heard the hesitation. Jiraiya squinted his eyes. It wasn't like her to hesitate during the middle of a sentance.

Tenten also saw through it and nudged Neji in the elbow. Neji responded with a slight nod and returned his attention to Tsunade.

Akamaru was still in Kiba's coat. They looked at each other, and thier gazes turned back to the Hokage.

Sakura still being to shocked to see Sasuke, didn't notice. Neither did Naruto. He nodded his head, not grabbing a clue at all.

"It will be an elimination challenge. I am supposed to go with 5 to 10 leading ninja's of the villiage. They wrote that they'd give us more information when we arrive. That has to be the part that I worry about the most. They wrote the directions and they say that the coliseum will be placed where the most borders intersect. That means it will be probably be placed along The Country of Grass's borders.They seem to touch most countries in that area." Tsunade studied the paper a bit more. Kakashi popped up behind her.

"Aren't you forgetting to tell us about that sentance? I think that would an important piece of information for us." Kakashi was no longer beside the desk, but behind it.

Tsunade was shocked. She quickly regained her composure and shoved Kakashi from behind her desk into a potted plant in the corner opposite of Sasuke. He tried to get up, but gave up quite soon after.

"Just tell them about that one piece of info, Tsunade-dono. Or I'll say it." Kakashi promtly took out his book, Icha Icha Mercy (1). Jiraiya couldn't help but smirk at his book.

Oh I'm just too cool Jiraiya thought

"I'll choose to disclose this information, Kakashi-san"

Kakashi sighed.

"I can't believe I'm letting this guy guilt trip me..." Tsunade hung her head, as everyone looked quite interested in what was about to be said.

The Hokage stood up, took a deep breath and picked up her chair. She looked around the room. She threw her chair out of the window. If there was someone in the room who wasn't interested before, they certainly were now.

"It's a death match. Till the end. Someone, no matter what, will die at the end of each match." She broke down, but since she threw her chair out the window, she just sat on the floor. Eyes completly emotionless, and broken. However there were another set of eyes in the room that glowed with blood lust.

At that exact moment the Hidden Villiage of Sand's wind blew. Gaara was sitting on a rooftop that belonged to a long since abandoned house. He saw a a kunai speeding towards him. He sat there. It would have hit him, but his sand had protected him. He picked up the kunai that was stuck in the sand and read it showing no emotion until the last two words, where he betrayed an expresion of shock.

Death Match.

AN: Awww! A lil SasuSaku moment:3 Don't worry, If I decide to add some romance, they probably won't be more of a pairing then, let's say...a kunai and a tree? They will just be friends who have each other's backs. I have a better Idea. I have a few favorite pairings.Smile But of course, that's only If I can fit some romance in.

Blood and Sweat, if you know what I mean... O

The next chapter will continue from Sand, then move to the next group to be introduced. coughAkatsukicough coughItachicough

I know! Still too short! Sorry guys! Later I might add the prologue to this chapter...not sure yet. (I did)

I added seven words for it to be two-thousand words.