Well I had some time this week and I have just been in a writing mood so I got this next chapter done. Meep.


We have been back in the palace under the three wolves for about a month. Everyday Master pushes me deeper into the dark heart of my power. Every day I forget more and more of what happens while I'm training. I keep pretending that nothing has happened, but it still scares me a little, but if that is what I have to do achieve revenge…I will pay that price.


I wandered the wastes of what I used to call my safe place. I had my power no more and all I could do was hope that he returned and that I wasn't too late. I couldn't live with myself knowing that I had let him win. All I had left were my wings.


The young junchuuriki walked without his usual spring. He had the help of many, but the one that could possibly help him the most was now one of his greatest enemies. He ached for the loss of someone that he thought he could have saved. He ached for his friend that loved her to. He ached for the Ten-Tail that had seemed to love and care for her human host and those she loved. To many had fallen to the masked man already and even if that meant losing a friend, saving his village and those he loved would have to be his ultimate choice.

Lost in his thoughts he walked to the place where he had first found his form among the trees. The memories of that came rushing back and so did the exhilaration of what he could really do. He sat beneath the falling leaves and blossoms and closed his eyes.


I felt the presence of another like jumping in a pool of ice, only opposite. It was a warm energy. I know this energy. "Only now that I have somewhere to go I realize how little energy I have left," I muttered as I puffed over to the cliff where I felt the energy appear. I stood hunched over and panting as I reached the edge and tried to find him. It didn't take long to find the now giant orange fox against the slate earth. I tried to call out to him but I was still too out of breath so only a horse squeak came out. Apparently this was enough for the fox's ears and he turned his head toward me. However, he did not look up at the top of the cliff where I stood so he soon shook his head as though he was just hearing what he want to hear. I had gotten a bit more of my breath back my now so I called in a more human sounding voice as he started padding in the other direction. He stopped dead I his tracks and turned around but still did not look up. So I picked up a rock and threw it down the cliff hoping he would wonder what caused the noise. This did more than I expected however, since my rock just happen to hit several others which hit several others which hit and dislodged a giant boulder and so on until I had caused a huge rockslide.

After was seemed to be a very long time the rocks finally stopped falling and the fox came to investigate. He sniffed and I could tell in his eyes that he recognized my scent on them. I looked over the edge and very carefully tried waving my stark white wings to get his attention. This movement was just enough to cause the rest of the top of the cliff to destabilize and just like the rock I had thrown I was suddenly tumbling down a very large height with no real way of stopping myself. My wings had become almost useless since the takeover of the Cloud. Thank goodness though that the fox had noticed the strange human shaped white thing falling down the cliff and caught me before I was crushed to death under the rest of the falling rocks. I rode the fox a short ways to a slightly greener patch of the place where I was let off to regain my breath once again. As soon as I did though I had it crushed out of me by my friend's embrace. "You're ok, Hikari. You're ok!" he kept repeating.

"I'm not going to be much longer unless I can breathe, Naruto."

He let me go at that and gave me a minute to regain normal blood oxygen levels.

"How did you escape? Are you feeling ok? Why do you seem different? Do you know how we can stop Tobi?" Naruto asked in rapid succession.

"I didn't, not really, because I am, and I'm still working on it," I answered with exasperated sigh and sunk to the ground.

"What?"

"Well expect a short answer when you ask so many questions at once."

He sat across from me on the patch of grass and looked at me expectantly.

"Well like I said, I didn't escape, well I suppose I sort of did. When Tuski realized that she wasn't going to be able to stop herself from falling back into darkness she took the light half of me and sent it here, and took the dark part of me into herself so that the me left in Tobi's control would possibly have a chance to escape and stop him by being completely neutral. However, because my new self had no parts of the true me left, it followed Tobi completely and it was even easier for him to learn how to control Tuski again. I am the light part of me right now."

He drunk up all I had said and nodded for me to continue.

"Well my answer to the first question pretty much answers your second two questions since I am not really ok and I am only about half of what I once was and I have almost no power left to help you with. This brings me to the last question which I have been thinking of ever since I was sent here. I'm though that if you can somehow break the hold he has over me that I would be able to return to my human body. The thing is to do that he would have to be nearly drained of chakra and so would my human body, which has Tuski's chakra to. This is the hard part. I don't know if you and Killer Bee together would be enough to drain a large enough part of my chakra in battle and you would also have to be attacking Tobi at the same time so that hopefully both of us would be getting weak at the same time. Then there is also the huge Zetsu army they have created. You will need the help of all the remaining ninja from all the nations if there is any hope of stopping Tobi."

He slowly nodded with darkening eyes.

"One last thing. Tomorrow they will be leaving for the Mist and they will cut across the northern half of the Land of Fire."

I saw the understanding across his face. More burning, more killing, more death before they even come to the Leaf.

"You should go and warn Tsunade while there is still time. There is nothing you can do for me here," I quickly added before he could open his mouth. "And don't tell anyone that I'm here. I know that you trust them but there is always the chance that someone could not be who they appear to be. This plan depends on Tobi being lured into a full out battle and if he would have anything to suspect he would be more likely to hold back and possible get my human self killed."

"But..."

"Please. I miss everyone to but you can't. You have to get them to believe you on your own," I pleaded.

"Ok," he finally agreed.

"Now go. Every minute you spend here is another less for people to get somewhere safer."

He faded back to real world and I was alone again and all I had left were my wings.


I remember nothing of the journey across the Land of Fire. I remember the way to the border, then letting go, then just darkness. Then when I turned back I guess I got my memory back. The first thing I remember after stopping on a small island in the Land of Mists is the fuss that Master made over me and a serious gash that I had on the crest of my head. He never directly told me how I got it and I didn't want him to find out about my memory loss so I never asked, but I had never gotten an injury besides a few scrapes or bruises from any of the other battles. I wonder how I got this one from just crossing over the land, unless they are as strong as Master tells me they are. If that is the case then I will enjoy the coming battles….if I can remember them.


So like I said before, I might get into one of my writing moods again or not, and I have a bunch of readings to do for next week for this paper worth 10% of our grade. So I can't promise but I'll try. See you guys soon, hopefully.