Here's the second chapter of Deadly Fun!

Warning: Yaoi. ItaNaru, LxLight (or LightxL). Yuri, yaoi, and possibly het side pairings. Possibly (read as definitely) weird side pairings. don't like don't read.

Ty to all of you lovely reviewers! This is the first time I've eva gotten 27 reviews for the first chapter! YOU PEOPLE ROCK!!

Note: Since Fallen-Angel-Helena was the only one (as far as I can tell) that voted for a side pairing, there will be SasorixDeidara! And so that that pairing's actually possible, I'm going to make it so that Sasori doesn't die! And I really like it, too! Their cute together! And it works for the story…

Oh, yeah, I was wondering: can I put InoxSakura in here as a barely covered side pairing? Or no? Or should I put it in here, but have it one sided? Or should I push Sakura off a cliff, eliminating her from the pairing consideration? (authoress- last one! pick the last option!)

If anyone has any preference for side pairings, please say so in your review. I will honor all requests, at the least with a hint or, if enough people want the same pairing or I want the pairing, I'll actually include it. If it's a pairing I hate I might ignore it. If only one person wants it and it's weird but I like it or I think it'll help me get past writer's block I'll still include it.

While we're on the topic of voting: should this be LxLight (L is seme Light is uke) or LightxL (Light is seme L is uke) or LxLightxL (no set role for seme or uke). or does it really even matter? (this isn't going to get really graphic unless the readers command it to be so)

L will make an appearance in this fic outside of Light's thoughts. No need to worry, fangirls! and anybody that's just curious

Disclaimer: Me no own Naruto. that privilege falls to Itachi. Me no own Death Note either (wish I owned a death note though... insert evil laughter)

Gomen nasai for taking so long to update! I had major writer's block, and actually rewrote this chapter several times... me being my perfectionist self. I 

was tempted to rewrite it again, but decided not to do so and to actually update. I'm still having writer's block, though.

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Rated M for later chapters

I've mildly edited this, btw. I always do this whenever I pick a story up after a hiatus. It helps me get over writer's block and get in the writing mood. Luckily for me this was my best written story (imo), so there's no heavy editing that needed to be done.

Key:

"Blah"- regular speech

Blah- regular text/ emphasis within a flashback or dream or thoughts

'Blah'- thoughts

Blah- dream text/ emphasis on a word or statement/ flashback text

"Blah"- dream speech

"Blah"- demon form/ dragon (or just something really really big) speech

'Blah'- demon form/ dragon (or just something really really big) thoughts

"Blah"- demon form/ dragon (or just something really really big) speech within a dream/ flashback

'Blah'- speech over a communication device of some sort.

"Blah"- speech in a language other than whichever one the shinobi normally speak in (Japanese or English, or some other language) (language spoken in tends to be demonic, Universal, or some other language.)

(Blah)- Mid-Chapter Author's Notes

Enjoy!

Naruto ran towards the training ground he was wont to use when he felt like being alone. It had been two days since Light had arrived in his world, and the blonde had yet to be provided with some time alone. It was damn annoying!

"Hey! Naruto!" the voice of Kakashi rang out from behind him. Naruto cursed under his breath before plastering on his happy mask and turning around to face his sensei.

"Hey! Kakashi-sensei!" he called out, his own voice sounding childish and irritating to his ears. This was seriously beginning to grate on his nerves. "Are you going to show me that uber cool technique now?"

Baka. Uzumaki Naruto was the world's biggest moron. He hated it. Still, he smiled and acted like the oblivious dobe everyone thought he was. What fools. Could they not tell that he acted? Did they really think that a jinchuuriki, no matter where he was raised, could be so stupid and live? Could live how he had and be so innocent?

Of course, not all were fooled utterly by his mask. But even the ones that thought there was something more were dead wrong. They thought he was the demon, an idiot that was hiding itself waiting for them to drop their guards. They were the most foolish of them all. He was not the fox demon sealed within his body. He was something else entirely. If only they knew their true peril, they would never have risked letting the jinchuuriki of the demon live. For each and every jinchuuriki holds within them the potential to be more powerful than their demon, more ruthless, more intelligent, and far more deadly. They were all fools to assume he was a mere demon.

That did not matter, now. Now what mattered was that Kakashi was expecting him to actually bother learning an overpowered version of a technique that could already kill most enemies. Really, if Naruto ever came across an enemy the Rasengan couldn't blow to bits, couldn't he just fry the idiot using the Kyuubi's yoki? No, that would be 'morally incorrect'. Please. It was no different from a bloodline. He'd been born with the demon, after all. Kakashi was a hypocrite, saying he shouldn't use a power not his own. Didn't Kakashi use a kekkei genkai that he hadn't been born with, and had originally belonged to someone else?

Still, he had to resign himself to listening to his so-called sensei. 'Naruto' would be overjoyed to learn a blatantly overpowered technique, no matter how utterly useless or even counterproductive it was. So he said it was the coolest idea ever and subjected himself to this new form of torture. At the least, he learned a new training technique, although he'd already known the whole elemental affinity thing. Wasn't it kind of obvious that there were elemental attacks? Of course, Naruto was an idiot that wouldn't have realized this had someone not pointed it out to him. Pathetic.

It took no time at all to master splitting the leaf in half with wind chakra. What was the point of this, again? It would be so much faster to learn this if he used the wind half of the fox's yoki to align his own chakra. Then again, there was the whole issue of the fact that his 'sensei' said that wasn't a good idea.

Since when had Kakashi ever been his sensei, anyways? He knew that Kakashi had been Sasuke's private trainer, and had been Sakura's sensei to some slight extent, but he was never Naruto's sensei. If Naruto hadn't happened to be standing there whenever Kakashi explained something, he would never have learned anything. Don't forget that when the chunin exams came around Kakashi ditched him with the first person he could bribe and/or blackmail into tolerating Naruto, not even bothering to check whether or not the guy hated Naruto for being a jinchuuriki. Moron.

It took all of a day to finish. When Kakashi and Yamato had fallen asleep, Naruto took the opportunity to slip away. Neither the current ANBU nor the ex-ANBU turned jounin noticed a thing. After all, Naruto had learned how to sneak out to train while traveling with Jiraiya. The perverted idiot had also prohibited him from using the power he was born with.

Within no time, he had arrived at a training ground outside the outskirts of Konoha. He'd left several shadow clones lying around to throw off anyone that might wish to find him, including one back at the training ground where he'd learned how to cut down on training time using shadow clones.

Having already decided that the first thing to do would be to create a durable body for Light to exist in, Naruto summoned 9,999 clones, making for a total of ten thousand Narutos. If he'd still be training with Kakashi he wouldn't have been able to do this, but now he could use as much yoki as he wanted provided nobody noticed the high output of demon energy.

All ten thousand Narutos set to work practicing the blood clone technique. It was simple, really. He'd used a form of it when he fought Orochimaru in his four-tailed form. A single drop of blood was combined with a high amount of yoki and a bit of chakra to provide stabilization, and then the healing properties of the yoki was used to cause every cell in that single drop of blood to multiply a thousand fold. What was formed could be used as a shield, a weapon, an extremely deadly poison if it got into the system of an enemy, and it could be used as an almost indestructible clone that simulated life perfectly. The yoki could also cause the special form of blood to set fire to anything it came into contact with. Also the substance, despite being nigh impossible to penetrate, was as fluid as water and could cut like wind.

With his preexisting experience with blood techniques, and the high number of clones combined with the ease with which he was able to use yoki when compared to the difficulty of harnessing chakra, he was able to finish the jutsu in two hours. Amazing how easy something could be when he didn't have hypocritical jounin and ANBU breathing down his neck.

Sighing, he started to work on combing the kitsune version of the henge no jutsu with the blood clone. This was getting repetitive.

Light wandered the halls on Naruto's mind, looking about uneasily. This place was seriously creeping him out. The scariest place he'd found so far had actually been the 'Liar's Palace', located two floors above the main area of the seal. It was the place in Naruto's mind in which his mask was represented. Light knew that he himself had a Liar's Palace, but he doubted it was as eerie as Naruto's.

The place was designed to look like some parody of a child's dreamland, something that many adults would think a child would be overjoyed to be in, but that many children would be terrified of. It was full of sickeningly bright colors and falsely joyful music. Light wouldn't have been surprised to find a body or something of the sort hidden behind a multicolored wall, or in a bright stall or shop.

The creepiest part of it all wasn't the 'evil monster lulling you into a false sense of security so that it could gobble you up' type sense that the place conveyed, but instead the items within the buildings. Mannequins and masks. So eerily life like, they looked as if they were about to start moving. Light had had a hard time shaking the feeling of millions of pairs of painted eyes watching his every move, waiting for the best moment to pounce and then tear him limb from limb.

He'd felt relieved when he found a staircase leading down into Naruto's actual mind. Not that there was much to be found. The place was actually weird enough to make him want to return to the Liar's Palace. Naruto's mind was one big optical illusion combined with a madhouse theme and a huge labyrinth. Great.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Light sighed. Naruto hadn't been joking when he said that this place didn't follow the laws of physics. There was no way in hell that was possible in the real world. Then again, what was displayed in front of Light's eyes might actually be possible in Naruto's world. From his and the Kyuubi's descriptions Naruto's world didn't technically have laws of physics either. The motto seemed to be 'if you try enough times it will happen'. Even if not a single variable ever changed the result would be different each time you tried something. Or something that worked the last time you tried it wouldn't work in the exact same conditions.

One example of how weird Naruto's world was: the phenomenon of the humans that existed there being able to breathe fire. When Light had asked how that was possible, he'd been told that one simply used fire aligned chakra or yoki. When he asked how to do that, he was told to set his life force on fire. When he asked how to do that the Kyuubi told him to just think very hot thoughts (no, not that kind of hot!). And to try not to burn his esophagus. Which raised the question of how it was possible to hold fire in one's throat, mouth, and wherever else it was stored and not get burned. The Kyuubi told him to shut up and that he was annoying her. Naruto, meanwhile, was laughing his ass off.

Getting annoyed at the randomness of Naruto's main mind area, and the fact that anything that might have told him something was locked up behind various doors, Light decided to return to the level that housed the seal. Jumping across the free-floating squares of a chessboard, he added not getting killed on his to-do list. The square he'd just left had turned over abruptly, revealing a white side to contrast with the black that had been shown. The one behind it then randomly lit up with crackling lighting. Looking around, that was happening in other places, too.

Wonderful. Just fucking wonderful. Before Light had the time to contemplate how absolutely wonderful his current situation was, though, he felt the platform shift under his feet. Leaping across the gap to another moving platform, Light barley avoided being dumped into the bottomless pit below the floating squares. Did he mention how un-fucking-believably wonderful this whole thing was?

Standing up, Light looked around. The platform he was on had risen up above the one he'd left, and was now descending. Other platforms moved in a set pattern, also. Some moved from side to side, others up and down, some moved in circles or other figures, while yet other made three-dimensional shapes. There were some that stayed in one spot, periodically flipping over either to show a side of another color or to switch from being deadly to being benign. The flipping and lightning followed a set rhythm, also, and there was always warning before it happened.

Hearing a buzz from the platform he was standing on, Light was quick to vacate it in favor of one that had just stopped being deadly to stand upon. Just in time, too. The place where he'd been standing was filled with thousands of volts of electricity in a matter of seconds.

Light quickly got the hang of navigating the platforms, his destination the passageway on the other side of the room, which he hoped would lead to a way into the lower levels of Naruto's mind. It was actually a lot like many video games. The goal was simple: make it across the gap without dying. The only problem was Light didn't have any extra lives with which to puzzle out any oddities or to make mistakes with.

Light glanced around the passageway stretching out in front of him when he managed to reach the doorway. Unlike the rest of this level of Naruto's mind, it 

lacked the laws of physics defying landscape that would take a genius to not get killed in. The corridor more closely resembled a medieval dungeon passageway, flickering torches lining a dark, evil feeling hall made of some ancient stone.

Of course, the seal main resembled a corridor much like this one, except the light radiated from some unnamable source rather than torches and the bottom was coated with water. And this passageway sloped upwards, which was in the opposite direction of where he wanted to go.

Light knew that appearances could be deceiving, though, and the corridor might come to a staircase, start sloping down, or only appear to be sloping up at the moment. That could also be taken to mean that this had nothing to do with the level that housed the seal, and was instead something much more sinister and one of those things both the Kyuubi and Naruto had warned him to avoid lest he die or go insane.

(As if you haven't already gone off the deep end,) that annoying voice whispered from the back of his head. Why couldn't the damn thing just shut up? All it ever did was criticize him or point out things he didn't want pointed out. If it didn't have anything nice to say, it shouldn't say anything at all.

Although the annoying voice was much better and much more polite than the voice that would not shut up about whether or not and how certain people should die. Even though its ideas for how to kill someone were quite fascinating, (He did NOT just think that) it was very rude, and quite psychotic.

Great. Now he was assigning personalities to the voices in his head. Could this day get any better?

While his mind was on the mentality track, he had one of those thoughts that lead to a thought that lead to a thought, and so on and so forth, until he began contemplating the differences between his thought patterns now and let's say… a few days before he died. Also the thought patterns from when he hadn't had his memories and before he'd gotten the Death Note to post discovery of the reality of the Death Note and after he regained his memories.

It was actually interesting how he currently was thinking the same as he recalled thinking when he hadn't known of the Death Note's existence, even though he had all of his memories. The personality that he'd shown as Kira had been fading over the past few days it seemed, leaving behind his regular personality. Which was pretty much the same as Kira's minus the god complex.

Broken out of his thoughts by the sound of stone slamming against stone, Light looked in the direction of the source of the disturbance. Shit. Not good.

His only open option of retreat should the foreboding feeling that had settled within his chest when he entered the corridor prove to be valid was now blocked off. He couldn't return to the platforms. The only way was forward. Light was mentally cursing the decision that had lead to him choosing to dare crossing the cavernous room that housed the moving squares.

His current unease was due to the sound that his ears were just barely picking up on. Light wasn't even sure if he was actually hearing anything, or if his mind was conjuring up sounds because of the lack of normalcy surrounding the situation.

There it was again. The faint, elusive sound of chains rattling. As if the skeletal remains of the prisoners that had been kept in the dark confines of some ancient underground dungeon were rising from the grave to seek their revenge. Or to eat the tasty scrap of defenseless meat that had wandered into their domain.

Light heard a scraping sound behind him, as if something unimaginably heavy were being dragged across the floor. Glancing behind him, Light's eyes widened almost imperceptibly at the sight that greeted him. The dim, flicker glow of the torches just barely illuminated the crawling progress of the stone wall that had just recently blocked off his only means of escape. Now it was inching towards him, intent on herding Light to whatever fate waited him that the end of this corridor.

Staring transfixed at the moving wall, Light realized something. Despite being inhibited by four surfaces pressing against it and undoubtedly creating an enormous amount of friction the wall wasn't slowing down or struggling to move forward at all. Instead it was speeding up.

Realizing that it wouldn't be a good to idea to remain in the path of the rapidly approaching wall, Light turned around and started to run. Really, where the hell had his intelligence gone? Probably Kira was smarter than Light. Even though he technically was Kira that still annoyed the hell out of Light. He did not need the Death Note to be smart!

Who was he trying to prove this too? Never mind. The wall was gaining speed, and the hallway never seemed to end or turn or have a branch off. Annoying.

Remembering what Naruto had said about the possibilities of this place being endless as long as it could be imagined, Light had no doubt in his mind that this corridor was in fact endless. He also had a very good idea if what Naruto said was correct, and a very bad idea if it wasn't.

Slowing down slightly, Light focused his mind. He imagined himself suddenly gaining more strength than the Hulk had. Nothing seemed to happen at first, but then just as suddenly as he had imagined it he felt all of his muscles bulge. Wasting no time Light punched the wall next to him, imagining it crumbling to reveal a side passage.

It worked. Light entered the small side passage just a split second before the stone wall that had been following him rushed by. It had apparently gained for mass than it had had at first, because enough stone stayed behind to completely block off the passageway. Since Naruto had also said that the ability to affect things in someone else's mindscape was limited, Light decided to not take his chances with trying to break through the wall.

Even though there weren't any torches, overhead lights, or the strange glow that characterized the seal area here, Light could still see fairly well due to a sickly glow coming from the far end of the hallway.

Light walked slowly towards the light, knowing it was most likely hazardous. He'd never seen this part of Naruto's mind before, or anything like it. Unlike the other areas, which were either composed of metal, wood, stone, or occasionally glass, the walls, floor, and ceiling of this place were made of what look like Styrofoam. Weird choice of building material, to say the least.

Light new that he must be in a new area of Naruto's mind, because the building material followed a specific theme for each level, but according to both Kyuubi and Naruto there were only three levels of Naruto's mind, the seal, the Liar's Palace, and the main area of his mind. Any floors under that made up the Kyuubi's mindscape, and inaccessible to anyone other than the Kyuubi unless they were absolute masters at hacking into other people's thought processes.

This was getting stranger by the second. There was no way in hell he was in the Kyuubi's mind, since he'd have to pass through the gate and the seal level itself to get there, and also go through several 'locked doors' as Kyuubi referred to them. There was the possibility that this was his own mind, but Light severely doubted it.

There were several possibilities as to what this may be. Light stopped walking as he contemplated his options, not wanting to walk into danger unawares. The Kyuubi would have no reason to lie to him about a level of Naruto's mind, and couldn't venture outside of the seal anyways, so she would have no way of discovering anything without Naruto immediately knowing about it. That meant that the possibilities of Kyuubi lying to hide the information from either Light or Naruto were out.

The other three possibilities were that this was a level that neither demon nor jinchuuriki knew about, Naruto knew of this level and didn't want anyone to find it, or this was a part of Light's mind. The latter and the former were the least likely of the three, but Light didn't want to jump to conclusions. That type of thinking could… no, would get him killed.

Pondering wasn't going to help him anymore at this point. Light started forwards once again, prepared for anything. If this place was indeed in Naruto mind, and if it was so secret that either nobody had found it before now or Naruto felt it was necessary to hide its presence, then there was no telling what sort of perils it may hide.

Light reached the end of the hallway almost immediately, as if his new resolve to find out what lay in waiting for him made the journey shorted, or his speed greater. Whatever the cause, Light felt as if he would soon regret choosing to explore as he stepped through the blindingly bright doorway.

Kakuzu scowled at the prone form of his fellow Akatsuki member. Damn them! He wasn't a fucking engineer or whatever! He wasn't even a god damned doctor, and yet they seemed to think he was overjoyed to fix all of their dumb ass little booboos!

That aside, orders were orders. He'd been told to fix Sasori after the puppet master had gotten himself blown to bits, so he had better do that or else! How had Sasori even survived getting his heart pierced, anyways?

Hearing footsteps behind him, Kakuzu scowled. Who dared interrupt his work?

"What the hell do you want?" he snarled at the blonde that now stood in the doorway. The idiot would not stop interrupting him! Why the hell did he even care if his partner died or not, anyways?

"How's it goin', un?" Deidara asked, ignoring Kakuzu's lack of social skills. Or patience. Or tolerance for other living beings. He'd been in and out of the infirmary so often lately that he was used to Kakuzu's attitude.

"I fucking told you a goddamned hour ago! He shouldn't even be fucking alive, and repairing a fucking puppet is not my area of expertise. Him and his shitty ideas for how to preserve his goddamned life are getting in my way! Why the hell can't I just let him fucking die, anyways?" Kakuzu snarled. Deidara and his goddamned stupid concern for his partner was getting on Kakuzu's nerves, goddamn it!

Deidara's eyes narrowed. "Don't. You. Dare. Insult Sasori-danna," he spat, glaring daggers at Kakuzu. The ancient missing-nin fought the urge to shrink away from the crazed blonde and beg his forgiveness. The guy was making the most stuck up of Uchihas look like a bunch of bunnies! "If he dies," Deidara continued, his tone colder than should be possible, "I will hunt you down and blow you into smithereens so small that there will be nothing left for the hunter-nins to find."

His threat delivered, Deidara turned on his heel and prowled out of the room, his body posture warning off any others he met on the way back to his room to stay the hell out of his way. Kakuzu scowled after he left. Why in all the hells had he been scared of that fucking blonde? Still, it was best not to aggravate him. For all he knew the blonde could have some kind of massive kamikaze bomb hidden somewhere. The guy was crazy enough to use it, too.

Kakazu turned back to his work. Even though he had no clue how to put the puppet parts back together, the biological parts he should be able to manage. As long as he didn't accidentally interrupt the chakra flow maintaining Sasori's life at this point. When the heart, which had been regulating the chakra flow, had been destroyed, Sasori's brain had been left to fend for itself. This would be a nightmare to fix.

Deidara slammed the door to his room behind him, the sound of wood crashing into stone not doing anything to alleviate his rage. Why the hell was he this upset! He should feel nothing, nothing! He shouldn't care that Sasori was hanging onto life by a thread! At the most, it was the loss of a useful coworker!

'If that was it, then why was I so terrified when I saw him laying there in a puddle of blood?' that traitorous little voice whispered. No! He shouldn't even be thinking about it! He shouldn't even care.

But he did. He cared, and he didn't want Sasori to die. And he hated that fact, that he was so weak, that he could be made so emotional by something as simple as the threat of another's death. Why wasn't it as easy to imagine Sasori dying as it was to imagine millions of innocents dying?

The puppeteer was so god damned annoying, Deidara should be happy that he was gone, or soon would be anyways. Sasori was so infuriating, with his rigid set of rules to abide by and his immovable views. He was so unshakable, so… so unchangeable, that it pissed Deidara off!

Sasori was everything Deidara wasn't. Deidara had never had a stable moment in his life. Sasori was the definition of stable. Deidara moved quickly, constantly changing, having a new favorite fashion style or food or whatever every week or two. The only thing that never changed was his fascination with explosions, and even then, the type of explosion that he preferred changed. Sasori was almost immobile, moving slowly and surely. He hadn't changed since the day he entered Akatsuki, not even aging. If anything at all changed about him, Deidara wasn't aware of it. Deidara could disappear at anytime, just like one of his bombs. The impression he made on the world would be monumental, but fleeting. Sasori would be here forever. Even if he didn't make any impression at all on the world, he would always be there. Those were the differences between Sasori and Deidara.

Deidara's fists clenched. Sasori infuriated him, but the blonde was unable to imagine him not being there. Even though he pissed Deidara off to no end with his unchangeable views, and his rigid way of working, Sasori was permanent. It was utterly impossible that he would simply cease to exist. Which was why Deidara hated him so much, and yet did not wish for him to vanish. Sasori was the only constant in his life, and was the first thing he could count on to not just disappear one day.

No. Sasori wouldn't leave him. Sasori wouldn't die. Sasori would always be there, because that's what he was. A boring and strangely fascinating piece of art that would be there for all of eternity. So unlike Deidara and so many people he had known. Sasori wasn't like them.

Sighing, Deidara lay down on his bed, tired suddenly. He hadn't slept since the fight with the Konoha ninja, and all of the emotional and physical stress was wearing down on him. It took almost no time at all for Deidara to fall into a restless sleep, shadows of the past catching up to him and haunting his dreams.

The blonde didn't know how much longer he could stand to be in Akatsuki. Their leader was insane, along with most of the members. Deidara knew he didn't have long before he followed the other members off the deep end. If he hadn't already.

"Itachi," Kisame growled. "What the hell are you plotting?" He knew, he just knew, that Itachi was up to something! This could not be good for either of them.

"Shut up and mind your own business," Itachi monotonously replied. Kisame blinked. He'd been expecting to be ignored. That Itachi had replied with more than just a 'hn', even though he still spoke in monotones meant that something was really bothering him. Kisame had a bad feeling about whatever it was.

Not wishing to irritate Itachi any further, Kisame turned around and returned to the hotel they were staying in for the night. Itachi didn't even acknowledge that he left, just continued to stare at the stars, his gaze fixed especially on that constellation. The one that he had pointed out to Itachi. The raven felt an odd heaviness fill his chest. It was a foreign feeling that Itachi hadn't felt since he was a small child.

Personal regrets aside, Itachi needed to move forward with his plan soon. It might not be as hard as he had originally thought, after all. Itachi knew that Deidara in particular wouldn't be feeling all that happy about Akatsuki, if he ever had felt such, after the recent events. Sasori might even be convinced to go along, too. That only left Kisame and the other Akatsuki members to either win over or dispose of. Either one, it mattered not to Itachi.

Nothing other than his goal… no, his ambition, mattered to Itachi at this point. Nothing had made him hesitate in carrying out his plan ever since he died, once and for all. Nothing ever would sway him ever again.

At the least, that's what Itachi believed.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I'll answer them to the best of my ability, although I won't give out spoilers.

I might go back and edit out that part with Itachi staring at the constellation… I seriously forgot what I was thinking then, and it'll prolly be a huge plot hole later.

Oh, this was written a while before current manga chappies (chappie 350 is how far I think I was), so expect some things to be AU-ish.

Translations:

Baka: stupid

Yoki: demon equivalent of chakra

Kyuubi: nine tails

Kyuubi no Kitsune: nine tailed fox

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Ja ne!

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