Sasuke walked into the agony chamber where Naruto was in the booth trying to bear with the pain. Arihiro was at the controls.

"He's been in there for twelve hours. Impressive." Arihiro said.

"Get him out of there." Sasuke said.

The door to the booth slid open and Naruto literally fell out of it. He was covered in sweat and breathed heavily. He was completely drained of his energy from trying to bear the pain of the Agony Booth.

"Bring Captain Shuji. I want him to spend some time in this invention of his." Sasuke ordered.

Arihiro nodded and walked out of the room.

"I'm disappointed Naruto. You gave up you're little coup de tat a bit too easily. I was hoping to fight you and kill you but you surrendered. Why?"

"It was the reasonable thing to do. You had me severely outnumbered once you were free. There was no point in fighting if I was just going to lose. I'll bide my time to become Hokage, dattebayo."

"You'll never be Hokage while I'm around." Sasuke snapped.

"That's why you won't be around when I become Hokage. With that said, are you going to kill me now or wait for me to kill you, dattebayo?"

Sasuke grabbed Naruto and slammed him against the wall. You betrayed me. Don't think for one moment that I'll forget that." Sasuke let go of Naruto and let him fall to the floor. "Get cleaned up. I'm going to send a team out to find this spy that you are so worked up about."

Shortly later, Naruto, Ino, Shuji and Satori all stood in front of the Hokage. "I want you four to enter the Forest of Death and search for this spy or whoever killed Neji."

"Yes, sir." They all said.

"Dismissed."

The four of them began to walk out. Sasuke grabbed Ino's arm before she could leave the room.

"I don't want Naruto to return from this mission." He whispered. "Do I make myself clear?"

Ino nodded. Sasuke let go of Ino's arm to allow her to continue.

The four ninjas walked through the gates of the Forest of Death.



"I hate this place, dattebayo." Naruto said.

"It's rumored to be haunted. It's enough to give anyone the creeps." Shuji said.

They noticed that a few animals lied dead nearby. The four of them stopped to examine them.

"Looks like someone's been in here. These animals didn't die from other animals. There are slash marks all over their bodies." Shuji said. "These wounds were made by a kunai."

Satori looked over and saw the remains of a camp fire.

"Someone has been here. There's a pile of burned logs over here."

"The question is: Where are they now?" Ino asked. "Stay alert. They still might be around waiting for an opportunity to strike."

The four of them drew their weapons just in case of an attack.

Meanwhile, Sasuke sat in his office with Sakura and a personal bodyguard. Then suddenly Sasuke's eyes went turned to the window just in time to see something crash through it. It was obviously a person. The personal guard stood ready but wasn't fast enough. The figure threw a kunai that stuck into the guard's chest. The figure then stuck up his index and middle fingers.

"KATSU!"

The kunai exploded without an explosive note. Not much was left of the personal guard. Sasuke leapt over his desk with a kunai drawn and charged at the figure.

"Sakura, get out of here." Sasuke shouted.

"What do you think you're doing?" She asked.

"What's it look like I'm doing?"

Sakura reluctantly ran out the door while Sasuke fought the intruder. She never looked back.

The ninja squad in the Forest of Death stopped in their tracks and looked back in the direction of the Hokage building.

"I'm sensing fluctuations in Sasuke's chakra." Ino said.



"He's being attacked." Shuji said.

The four of them leapt into the air back to the Hokage building.

Sasuke threw kunai and shuriken at the intruder but his opponent just dodged around them.

"Who are you?"

The guy smiled. "The name's Yohaku Junshin. I'm from the Hidden Rock Village and I've come to kill you."

"And why is that?" Sasuke asked.

"Well, I'm a ninja. That's what I do."

"I'd like to see you try."

Junshin attacked once more. Sasuke dodged more kunai as he did a few handseals. Snake, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger.

"KATON: GOKAKYU NO JUTSU!" (Fire Element: Great Fireball Technique)

Sasuke blew a fireball towards Junshin but the Rock ninja leapt out of the way and threw more kunai while he was in the air. Sasuke leapt away from the kunai, knowing that they could blow up at anytime. He landed on the far side of the room. Sasuke summoned the Demon Wind Shuriken by running his fingers across his special wrist bands. He threw the shuriken hoping that it would slice through Junshin due to the fact they were fighting inside and it provided little to know room to move around. To Sasuke's surprise Junshin caught it out of the air. He ran his hand over it, molding it into another weapon. The giant shuriken was now a sword. At that moment, Naruto, Ino, Shuji and Satori all appeared in the window. Sasuke looked at them in surprise. He didn't expect them to return. That gave Junshin enough of a distraction to attack again. Junshin sprinted forward so fast that Sasuke had no time to react. He shoved the sword right through Sasuke's abdomen and pinned him to the wall. He leapt away to the other side of the room with his index and middle finger on his right hand extended. Sasuke's grabbed the sword but was having difficulty pulling it out. He noticed the position of Junshin's hand. Sasuke tried harder to pull it out but it was to no avail.

"Too late. KATSU!"

The sword exploded disintegrating Sasuke's upper body. The four Leaf ninjas looked in shock at what had just happened.

"HOKAGE-SAMA!" Ino yelled.



Junshin grinned and then looked to the other four. He knew he had to retreat for the time being because he couldn't face all four of them at once. One at a time easy, but not all four. He pointed to them.

"Kill you later." He said as he leapt away.

A grin spread across Naruto's face.

I am now the Hokage.