Silent Night
The ninja guard standing at the konoha gates narrowed his eyes as he looked into the darkness of the forest.
He thought his eyes were playing tricks on him because he saw yellow eyes flicker for a minute.
In the dead of night, and since he was sleepy, he merely dismissed it as a trick of the moon light on some wet leaves.
A dark figure flew over his head.
He glimpsed the shadow on the ground and looked up, shuriken and kunai beared.
He didn't even have time to scream before a long, black, reptilian tail was shoved down his throat.
As he died from suffocation, he stared into those eerie, yellow eyes.
Sakura was getting out of the shower and walked out of the door when she saw something perched on her balcony staring at her.
The creature cocked its head to the side and smiled, showing teeth that looked carnivorous.
She gave a high pitched scream and it was gone.
Her mother and father rushed into her room.(her father covered one side of his face.)
"What's wrong?" her mother asked concerned.
"Something...on my balcony!" she said pointing at her balcony with a shaky finger.
Her father went outside with a katana in one hand, and was shocked at what he saw.
It looked human, but seemed somewhat birdlike.
It's hands were clawed and surprisingly clean.
It had skin that had a dark-cloud gray color.
It's hair was long and black.
It had large, bat-like wings with sharp edges.
Sakura and her mother slowly walked outside to see what was taking so long.
Sakura was the first one to notice something terribly wrong with the picture.
It's eyes were yellow, but still had the three tomoe in it like sharingan, and its eye temples bulged like Hinata and Neji's byakugan.
It jumped off the chimney it was perched on and stood up straight.
It was about 6'4 and had a medium build.
It still focused its eyes on Sakura, then on her parents, then cocked its head to the side, studying them.
With movements their eyes couldn't follow, it jumped back, just as three shuriken hit the place its face just was.
Sakura looked in the direction of the shuriken to see Sasuke, Kakashi, and a blushing Naruto.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" Kakashi asked, looking at the visitor.
It then turned its attention to Kakashi and the others, tilting its head to the side, studying who they are.
Kakashi and Sasuke almost immediately recognized the bizarre sharingan in its eyes.
It disappeared from sight.
"Naruto! Sauke! Move!" Kakashi yelled as it came crashing into the spot they were just in.
It went for sasuke, who formed his hands into the tiger symbol.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
Spreading its wings, which were about five feet in length, it flapped them once and the fire ball dissaperated.
In blinding speed it charged into Sasuke's stomach with its head, grabbed his left foot, then spun around before throwing him into Kakashi, who caught him without difficulty.
With the skillful one busy, its attack was now aimed at Naruto.
"Naruto look out!" Sakura, Kakashi and Sasuke yelled at different times.
It appeared behind Naruto and elbowed him in the back.
It then grabbed him by his throat, squeezed a little, before throwing him aside and quickly flying out the way before Guy, Asuma, Kurenai and Kakashi slashed at the air he was previously occupying.
Now everyone in Konoha was awake, and the lights were turned on to illuminate their visitor.
Everyone looked at it in shock and horror as it looked at them with curiosity and wonder, like a kid in a candy store.
"What are you?" Kakashi asked.
It said nothing.
"What are you doing here?" Guy asked.
It still stayed silent, studying them with its eerie, ominous eyes.
Suddenly, its eyes narrowed as it looked from Hinata, to Naruto, then from Sakura to Sasuke, and from Rock Lee to Sakura.
It folded its arms and looked like it was deep in thought.
"Well, I guess we'll get some answers the hard way." Kakashi said unsheathing his sharingan.
Hinata and Neji were shocked to see the bulging temples of the byakugan in the hands of this opponent.
It made hand signs that lasted for thirty seconds before announcing, in a demonically deep voice, " Fire Style: Fireball Justsu!"
What made it so surprising was that its fireballs were more numerous and larger than Sasuke's.
Everyone dodged it without any real means.
Neji got into his stance for his eight trigrams, and leapt at it.
"Two Palms!" he missed.
"Four Palms!" missed again.
"Eight Palms!" it was studying his movements.
"Sixteen Palms!" countering his speed with its own.
"Thirty-two palms!" learning from his moves.
"Sixty-four palms!" And predicting his moves two strikes before they happen. Oh yeah, he's an anti-ninja equivalent to Raid.
With the popular forward push kick seen in 300, he knocked Neji off the roof and onto the ground.
"Wait! Stop!" Tsunade said.
Everyone went quite and the night was silent for a moment.
"There's something you're not seeing."