AN: Sorry for such a long wait. Things are finally up and running again; here's chapter four which some of you guys waited so long for. :)

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Eight men and two women dressed completely in gray leaped from areas surrounding Konoha; each drew kunai and shuriken. Ten figures suddenly emerged in the streets, twenty-two others lost their lifes near instantly and many more were going to die as well in the few minutes to come.

Tsunade had been looking out her window at the groups setting off, and took notice of some shadows flitting across the air for a split second.

…Wait. What?

She immediately signaled the team in her office to go down and help. They sprang to their feet and ran and sprang out the window, much to the local glassmaker's anguish.

Tenten whipped out her summoning scroll and drew two scimitars from it in a puff of smoke as she landed on the ground and whirled around to come face to face with an insanely creepy person. Eyes totally red, face painted white and black, he looked like a demon. As he swung his right arm (with a kunai knife) in an arc above his head, Tenten dodged the sweep as she ducked and threw herself into his groin-al area then stabbing him in the gut with both scimitars, then slashing her arms out to the side, effectively cutting him in half. As he fell, he was able to position his arm so the kunai went straight into Tenten's shoulder. She fell as well, and could not feel her entire left arm anymore.

Sanji's feet hit rooftop and started to sprint towards the nearest gray figure. As it yanked its katana out of a person's chest, it turned and took notice of a well-dressed man charging at him. Sanji leapt into the air, spun around and planted a powerful kick where the man's head would've been two seconds ago. Instead, his foot was nearly cut into two as his shoe met sharp steel. The man with another man in his sword swung downwards, which really did cut Sanji's foot into two. He screamed harder and louder than he had done before in his entire lifetime as the waiter collapsed to the floor and fell off the roof, bleeding profusely. The last thing he noticed as he blacked out was a flash of pink hair, a cracking sound and a lot of flying organs.

Gai was getting one hell of a workout as he dodged and punched and dodged and kicked a woman and a man, both apparent masters of Taijutsu as well. The fight dragged on and on with all three sustaining a lot of damage; Gai had gotten kicked so hard in the face his nose snapped clean in two (which had, in turn, made him lose a lot of blood plus help hinder his sight). The woman ended up dying painfully as Gai punched her in the neck, and the man's left hip was completely shattered when Gai had Dynamic Entorii'd after bouncing off a wall. It finally ended when Gai, after getting another hard punch to the chest, had finally gotten pissed off so much to the point where he hugged the guy so hard his spine snapped in two almost instantly. The green ninja started the walk, or limp, to the Hokage's office in the hopes that she'd help heal his injuries and take his place in the fray.

Sakura actually was the only one not to sustain any injury, instead she had hopped around from place to place. One gray woman had gotten in her way as she sped to a rooftop where she'd seen the waiter Taijutsu pirate fall, and the woman got a nice chakra-powered fist to the face. She died instantly. Sakura hopped onto the roof behind the robed man and grabbed his arms, forced him into a position much like Sasuke had done to Zaku during the Chuunin exams, and twisted. She then forced a foot through his back to ensure no medical-nin would help heal his 'injury'.

She picked up half of a foot and leaped down, starting to work her medi-skills on mending the foot as much as she could.

Tsunade watched, horrified, as the ninja fell one after the other. She leapt from the window, Shizune not long after, and rushed to Tenten's side; Shizune intercepted Gai.

Unknown to both, six were still left. That was the good part.

The bad part?

They were all heading for Tsunade.

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AN: You'll find out what happens to Chouji and the rest of the guys/people/gang next chapter. Hah.