A/N: Ok, fourth chapter, now the fun begins.

I don't own, Naruto or any other fighting influences used in fic.

Flashback

'Thoughts'

Any other font will be explained in the story

Bitch Squad

I moved another purple-blue leaf out of my way as my mood worsened. What am I doing out here again? Oh yeah.

I was skimming through the new information in my holo-band when Sakura walked up to where I was sitting. "You know 6, I know a couple of girls that are pretty powerful. I call them the Bitch Squad." I raised an eyebrow, silently asking why. "Trust me you don't wanna know. But if it interests you, one of them is Gaara's Sister." A sudden shift of sand rose up a foot in the air.

"What!" came the cry of Gaara, who had the unfortunate chance of overhearing our conversation.

"If it makes Gaara that worried, I'd like to see why."That was code for: If it annoys Gaara, this is going to be fun.

No one told me they were stationed in a forest of Martian trees. The small spaces were making me nervous of the chances of escape, and also unleashing bigger attacks. But if Sakura says they'd be good to our cause, I believe her. But, Gaara's sister, it makes me think (and you know how dangerous that is) I heard of some instances of whole biological being donated before being born, I guess it makes it easier to graft powers into them as an embryo. It's kind of sad, but a least you'd have a real connection to someone. And with news of the Jinchuriki project, I guess you'd need it. The news of the project rattled in my head still, the sullen faces of Naruto and Gaara as they recited it, as if they practiced it. I knew there are layers to the Earthling government and under those layers lay secret projects, to make 'progress.' But to me, it's kind of disgusting, because it makes us seem almost as heartless as the Exous which made Noahs. But what happened to the 10th and 11th subjects? I guess they died.

SWACK!

A branch swung and hit me right in the face, but I guess that's what you get for not paying attention. "Alright, they should be around here." Sakura said from the front, "Hey Pig! Temari! K-" Sakura was cut off as a shadowed figure tackled her into a bush.

"SAKURA!" Naruto and Sasuke screamed and went after her and the attacker, but a blinding high-pitched screech paralyzed us. I tried to signal to Gaara but he was already knocked out. Damn! What do I do? Before long, I was seeing in tunnel vision, and it was closing. Damn it!

I opened my eyes to find myself in a dark space, I saw nothing but black for what seems like miles, and I was standing on nothing, or that's what it seemed since it was just blacker below me. Were we transported somewhere? No…I think, I'm in my mind. Is this some sort of trick? I turn my head wildly, looking for something …anything! Then…the boy from before shows up again. "W-who are you!" I scream, but everything seemed far away, even my voice, time felt like it had weight and it was stacked on me, I was atlas, and time was the sky I was doomed to hold forever. I see his face clearer now, even as I feel that I'm losing myself to the darkness, his left eye is shadowed over again and even with one eye visible, his emotion made it to me, it was like a mix of pity, a burning emptiness, and maybe pain.

But despite my heighten paranoia, I feel familiarity rush into me, helping me lift the heavy time. While I was debating my action, he raises his hand to my chest and I see orange chakra cover him, and flowed from his outstretched hand to my chest. Instantly I feel an enormous rush of power my body was glowing white just like his orange glow, pain shot through me, and I knew my body couldn't handle this power injection. Breathing heavily I collapsed to my knees, the boy took a step back and the chakra immediately formed a sphere around him. I was amazed as the darkness receded and I could see the orange-red terrain with purple-blue trees. He pointed to me, then the orb, "Do you want me to do it?" I asked, still panting, he nodded. I tried to ask again who he was, but the burning in my body told me I needed to expel some of this power. So I stood clumsily, letting it seep through my pores, creating a white-silver orb similar to his. I could feel myself being drawn to the real world. I turned back to look at the boy, but he was gone.

My eyes opened with a jolt, I was still emitting chakra, and the screech was massively reduced, it sounded so far off in the distance now, but it's still there, meaning the others are going to be out for a while. I didn't dare remove the protective orb, I'd probably get knocked out again, what I need to do is find Sakura, so she can awaken the others. Walking past the bush where we were ambushed I activated my Sharingan, Sakura's pink chakra was 10 yards away, along with another with a vast amount of chakra, it surrounded us, so she must be the one causing the screech. I grabbed my sword off my back and ran towards them.

What I saw was not what I was expecting.

"Ahh! Ino! Stop that! Ha, ha ha! No!"

"Tickle, tickle, tickle!" The one with the vast purple chakra said, Ino, I guess, as she tickles the pinkette. I was behind a bush wondering what to do, but that decision was made for me. "Come out, I know you're there."

What! How could she know? I was stealthy! But I got my answer when the bush I was hiding behind suddenly dissipated and turned into chakra, some of it returned to her. "Was that an illusion?" I made my way to her and I could make her features out more, she had long platinum blonde hair with a fringe in front of her left eye, pupil-less sky blue eyes focused on the girl in front of her. She was dressed in the regular armor, but it was tattered, and you could see the under armor, plus it looked like she cut the under armor so her mid-section showed, she obviously was pretty and she wasn't afraid to show it.

"All of it was an illusion; you've been in my range for awhile…remember when you got whacked in the head?" She giggled at my expense, and I frowned.

"Vividly. So that was you?"

"More or less," She went back to Sakura, who was recovering from the 'attack', "My, my, my, still as ticklish as ever, huh, Sakura?" she said in a teasing voice.

"Shut *gasp* up, pig." She looked quite mad.

"Where did you get this stylish armor! It looks so cute on you!" Sakura blushed at Ino's attention. I just sweat-dropped.

"So, Ino, How big is your illusion range?" I broke in, steering the conversation back on track.

"Well that depends, if I just sit in one spot and have some back up, about 1 mile around, but of course stretching it out like that renders me kind of immobile and the quality isn't very good, so I usually lead the enemy in circles and when they get tired, we ambush them, but to do illusions in battle 5-6 meters."

"Maybe I should formally introduce myself I'm—"

"Soldier 6, Kohona, rank 73, elemental, sword, 18th company, yadda, yadda, yadda, I know."

I raised my eyebrow in interest, "How do you know that?"

"I'm Ino Yamanaka, rank 53, same company and country as Sakura here, powers; Illusion, mind transfer, short-range mind reading, about 10-15ft. That kind of depends on the intensity of the thought, and finally, light manipulation."

"Short-range mind reading, that explains it. Well, I'd like it if you allowed everyone to get up."

"Oops, almost forget about them." She said in her teasing voice again. I looked to the surroundings and my Sharingan noticed trees made of chakra, although it was a small amount, I guess that's how she could really utilize all of her chakra reserves. The only thing that her chakra didn't touch was the sky.

We went back to the others, and man, did they have a headache. Sakura gave them some medicine from her medical pouch and they were better, but still cranky as hell. "Ow…" Naruto moaned, "Anyone get the number of the tank that ran me over?"

"Seriously." Sasuke agreed in his own ways, you could tell he was slightly annoyed that he hadn't noticed the genjutsu.

"So where's the rest of the Bitch squad?" Sakura turned to Ino as she crossed her arms.

"Must you call us that?" Ino sighed. Sakura just raised an eyebrow, silently answering 'yes' and asking her question again. "They're coming, I used my powers to create a large gray rock, when it disappears it means 'come to my position'. They should be here shortly. I inwardly commented that they were highly organized.

"Gaara, any vibrations?"

"Yes, a weird one," He knitted his eyebrows together, in confusion, I took this as a bad sign, "It stops and starts, but it doesn't feel like someone's jumping, there's no deeper impression, It's coming from behind us! 30m…25m…20…15…10…5…" two more figures popped out, and before any of us could react, one glomped Gaara, the other glomped both Sasuke and Sakura. The dust rose up and temporarily blinded us.

After the smoke cleared, I saw two girls who had a cocky smile seemingly tattooed on their faces. It looked like Ino's when she teased Sakura. One was a tall, dark blonde, she had a slight tan going on, had on light purple under armor, and she was slightly muscular, she easily lifted Gaara, gourd and all, and shook him back and forth, left to right; his legs were waving around like he was a rag doll. By the way he looked; it was obvious he was in pain and embarrassment. The second girl was as tall as Sakura with long red hair, one side was combed and the other looked teased. She wore black rimmed glasses in front of red eyes, a very dark purple under armor on, and what looked like…Short shorts? She laughed as both people pinned beneath her complained loudly, but none of it seemed to reach her ears.

Ten-ten, Naruto, and I stood sweat-dropping at the scene in front of us. Ino simply fell over laughing, which caused us to double sweat-drop. Gaara used his sand to separate the older girl's arms and escape, he gasped loudly as his lungs grasped for air. Sakura and Sasuke used their combine strength to throw off the red-headed girl and stand up immediately. The others and I were up to triple sweat-drop. Sasuke moved behind Naruto and held him by the shoulders to shield him form the red-headed menace; Sakura did the same with me. "Come on Sasuke-kun, Saku, it's been so long, don't I get a kiss?"

'Quadruple sweat-drop everybody! We've broken the record! Everybody clap!' I thought ruefully. I craned my neck to look at Sakura, she was blushing madly, that or it was anger, Sasuke too, but I'm sure it was more anger. And being me, I just had to add fuel to the fire, "Well aren't you two popular?" I said.

"Shut up." They said as they double punched me so I was looking like an ostrich with my head in the sand and my feet sticking straight up. This time, everybody sweat-dropped. When I got my head put of the sand, the taller tan girl looked to me as she held back the trashing red-head. I was starting to understand why she was muscular.

"Well hello handsome," I saw the red-headed girl look at me, and I took a wise step back, "I'm Karin, MW rank 55, 100th company originally from the land of sound, powers; bite healing, speed, sensory, and another secret I like to keep quiet." She said. She took in my gray hair, "So what are you? 60? 70? Aren't you a little old for this?"

I can see why Sakura called them the bitch squad.

"Don't you think you're a little too young to be dying you're hair and too immature to be chasing after loves-that-never-will-be in revealing clothing?" I answered in a fake happy tone, "Besides, didn't your mother ever tell you it's rude to ask an adult their age, and base it off their natural hair color no less?" I lectured.

"I thought that was with women, like my Saku!" She tried to glomp Sakura but was caught by the other women.

…Does that sentence sound weird to you?

"Don't worry, she's just lust crazed all the time." The dirty blonde talked in a sultry, but mature voice, "I'm Temari Sabaku, rank 54, wind mastery, super-strength, and speed. Also, I'm Gaara's older sister." She introduced herself as she started messing with Gaara's blood red locks. Poor Gaara, his hair just seemed to have natural grease in it, sometimes it's good, like after a battle, with a swipe of his hand it's back in place, but in this case it was being used against him to change his look to emo punk rocker. When he groaned loudly he unfortunately caught our attention.

Temari had put his hair in a faux-hawk.

...

We tried, we really did. But we couldn't help but laugh. And laugh…and laugh…and holler…and laugh…And boy howdy, it was a knee-slapping, side-splitting good time!

After the laugh fest and many death stares/threats by Gaara we eventually stopped. Needless to say he relaxed it back to it's original form, but I noticed he didn't really mind Temari messing with his hair, I guess it was evidence of a family bond…thing; whatever you want to call it.

Taking advantage of the silence I told the girls my plan. And guess what they said?

"You're Crazy." Yep.

"Yeah, I've been getting that a lot lately." I deadpanned.

"But it just might work." Karin chimed, adjusting her glasses. Ino and Temari turned to her with upturned eyebrows.

"Really?" They asked.

"Yeah, sure, I mean it's crazy but no one has been able to come up with something that complicated, it couldn't reveal what we're doing to the Exous and give us a chance, no matter how small and insignificant it is." 'Gee, thanks' I thought. Leave it to the resident crazy to make sense of it and make it seem not so crazy. I guess their logic is just like that.

"That and you want to get with Sasuke…" Temari interjected.

"…And Sakura," Ino said, finishing for her. She put a protective arm around who blushed at the turn of events.

"Well that too," At least she truthful about it, but then she wiggled her eyebrows at them and Sakura face-palmed while Sasuke looked stoic (not including the twitching of his eye of course), but surprisingly Naruto was getting mad. I was wondering how the hell crazy met those two when Ino turned to me.

"Well 6, Sakura and I met in the training facility back on Earth when we were growing up. I was like her body guard," She stopped to duck an angry punch from Sakura, "We met Karin and Temari on Mars and we hit it off. Sakura saved Karin from death when we first met, and Sasuke saved her from a tank when an ambush went bad. She couldn't choose between them so she chose both. But I guess it's true that no good deed goes unpunished." Oh. Well, at least she's not just randomly lusting after people. But I'm still not used to this mind reading thing, but I had a hunch that she couldn't turn it off, like Gaara.

Man, what is it with our government and it's consistency with powers that come with no off switch? Is it too much to ask?

"So, back on topic, will you join us?" I said while I unconsciously adjusted my arm guards. They exchanged glances and nodded. Excellent, now all we have to—

"Don't get so excited, you have to pass our test." Ino said, all business-like.

"Test?"

"Yes, every team has a mandatory test the person must pass to have us join or you join us. It's not really a written rule, but we MWs do it anyways." Temari said. I turned to my team; they had tested me, but hadn't said it was a test. I guess it was true to form for them to be lighthearted like that. "Each fight holds a lesson to be learned, and since time is of the essence, tomorrow you will go against all us in one-on-one fights. At the end of each fight, we'll allow a 2-hour break. And if you fail to beat one of us, well, good luck and good-bye. But if you beat all of us, we'll ask you what the lesson was, you get one guess." She continued. I was slightly ticked that they had made this some sort of complicated pass-fail thing. But then again, Naruto and the others went easy on me. I'm sure there was a lesson, I just…never thought about it. I saw Ino grin, I instantly knew she was reading my mind…and probably laughing at my naïveté.

And I guess I couldn't blame her.

That night, we all set up camp, Ino Temari, Ten-ten and Sakura in one, Sasuke and Naruto in another, Karin got her own (guess why), and Gaara and I in the last one. He was propped up on the wall lost in his pseudo sleep. I was pleasantly surprised when he said the tent floor lessened his 'awareness' since he wasn't on sand directly.

I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the boy I saw in my mind, he seemed younger than me, but I felt such attachment. Was I friends with him in the training facility? I had to have been, it would explain his age. And when I noticed that in the 2 times I saw him, his left eye was lost to the shadows. As if the boy didn't want me to see. I subconsciously rubbed my Sharingan eye. It looked far too different from my other eye. It was red with two black dots that left a small trail, while my other was black, you know, normal looking. But I couldn't turn it off like Sasuke could his. I looked through my Sharingan eye and looked at my body, I had my regular blue-white chakra, and within it I saw the orange chakra, it didn't mix, but rather flowed through my keirakukei (chakra lines throughout the body) and surfaced every once in a while and disappeared quickly, it circulated so fluidly, as if it belonged.

Then I remembered the orb jutsu he showed me in my mind. I didn't move my head, but my eyes to where Gaara was, making sure he wasn't too awake, he was a breathing statue. I closed my eyes and let the chakra seep through my pores, controlling it into a sphere around me; I opened my eyes and saw the silver-white orb again. It had protected me from the illusion, well part of it. I reached up stealthily and tried to touch it. My hands slipped right through it. In the back of my mind a comment quietly muttered something. I couldn't quite make it out, as if it were from someplace else. Following a hunch I kept trying to touch it, with both hands.

And I heard it again, "It should be solid" It had an echo-like quality to it.

And I realized… it was from a memory.

"6…" A whisper so low I wasn't even sure I heard it. I looked to Gaara who had his eyelids open the slightest bit, but his bright sea-foam green eyes made me follow the line of sight towards the entrance to our tent. I gave the slightest of nods.

Gaara and the rest had a silent but understood language, he was saying someone was there and both eyes open meant that they've been there awhile. Whoever it was quiet enough to not immediately wake Gaara or put me in battle mode. By leaning my body so I could grip the zipper with out moving and making noise, I gave a slightly-louder-than-usual breath. One that couldn't be heard outside, but said to Gaara 'Get ready.' He imitated the breath giving me the go ahead.

I ripped the zipper down revealing Ino, and at being discovered, she jumped in surprise. "Heh, hi." I could hear quiet laughing breaths from Gaara, yet no change in his face. "Wow you guys were so quiet you didn't even think until the last possible millisecond." I blinked, we didn't think? But I guess we just understood.

"What are you doing here?" I whispered as I got out of the tent and zipped it up.

"I heard a voice, one that comes from your thoughts, and I knew it was coming from you, but it sounded different, darker, in pain." I instantly knew what she was talking about, the boy, but I wasn't thinking of him talking.

"What boy?" she asked, I flashed a mental picture of him when we were in my mind.

"Oh."

I knew Gaara was extra aware, trying to 'feel' our conversation, so I asked her "Can we speak in thoughts?"

'Yes' her voice came from her mind and it sounded weird, but I started to thought-talk.

'I lost my memory, a long time ago. But lately I've been seeing this boy' I chose my memories and sent them to her. A way to describe it would be like sending an e-mail with an attachment. It was weird, but felt natural.

She nodded, but some confusion was evident on her face. 'Close, but no. It was more guttural then this'

'More guttural?'

'Yeah, maybe something from your subconscious is manifesting in the form of this boy' I checked her information in my holo-band quickly.

'It says that you can travel into the mental plane, can you see and uncover memories?'

'Yeah, if they remember parts of it, why?'

'I got part of a memory when I…did something' I thought, intentionally keeping the orb jutsu I did earlier out of my mind.

'I don't want to spend too much chakra, we do have to face each other tomorrow, but I can enhance it so you have a bit more of the memory.'

I'm not gonna lie, I was a bit disappointed, but a clip of info was better than none. 'Okay.'

She reached her hands up and her fingertips to my temples and through my Sharingan I could see purple chakra flow down the kenkikurei in her arms and make its way to my head. 'This might hurt since your memories are locked' she thought, and as soon as I heard her, it felt like spikes were being driven into my brain, I gritted my teeth and felt like screaming but it was like my mouth was sewed shut. The terrain in front of me disappeared and was replaced with a huge room. It was all white but about 20 feet up it dissolved into darkness. I tried to look at my hands but I couldn't move them. I realized I was lying down, apparently breathing heavily.

I remember now, I'm seeing but I can't move, this is a memory that I'm viewing. I'm not as I am on Mars than here. Then that boy leaned over me looking beat up, he smiled widely despite his appearance.

He looked the same as in my visions, but he had both eyes, and they were red like the first time I saw him. "Man, this new jutsu you created is awesome!" He adjusted orange goggles on his head.

I felt myself smile. "Yeah, it's multipurpose too! It can be used like a shield, genjutsu cancellation, and who knows what else!"

"Yeah," He sat down as I sat up, "But I like the fire one you created even better, where do you get these ideas?" He said.

"Really? I think it needs work…it's unstable." I brush dark locks out of my view, I guess I grayed faster then most, even for a MW.

"Hm…" He made a noncommittal sound.

"Are you worried?" He turns to me trying to rid himself of emotion, he nervously fidgets with his goggles. "That's your tell you know, I can always tell when your nervous or when you're getting ready to use to your jutsu."

"Thanks for the sagely advice." He retorts angrily, but he lowers his hand from the eye-wear.

"I know that deployment is soon, you've been trying to drag these sessions longer and longer because of it."

"Am not."

I rest a hand on his shoulder and squeeze, "It's not good to keep these things inside."

His jaw clenches and he turns to me, "Then promise we'll be on the same squad. We do have great pull around here…" He mutters the last part but I hear him fine.

I chuckle, "So that's how you're able to reserve the practice rooms for an insane amount of time." He gives a sheepish smile. "You're so transparent."

"Hey!" He playfully punches my shoulder. He looks off into the distance, and I look into my hands, they seem a pit paler, but I guess fighting in the sand gives a bit of a tan. I put a pinkie finger right in front of his face, making him jump a bit, but he recovers and looks at me.

"If it's that important to you, then I will, Obito."

"Thanks…brother." he wrapped his pinkie around mine and smiled a thousand-watt smile. We stand up, and I can feel the familiar weight of my sword, but it feels weightier. "Let's do it again!"

"Where do you get the energy?" I say more to myself than him. He focuses and the orb jutsu surrounds him. I walked around and scrutinized his work. I reached out and touched it, feeling some resistance, but my fingers still slip through. "Almost, you've got the basic idea, but it should be solid."

The memory fizzled out after that and I felt like I was being thrown back to consciousness. Ino removed her fingers and watched me gasp like a fish out of water. I ran to the bushes and had a second meeting with my dinner. I as I stood there, I started evaluate the memory, it was more informational, but it was vague. At least I got a name…Obito.

After I was done, I still felt like the virtual ping-pong ball used between two finalists in holo-table-tennis. Let me tell you, that's not a good feeling. I looked back to the camp to see Gaara outside along with Sakura and Ino. All of their faces shared a worried expression.

Despite my saying that I was fine, Gaara held me down as Sakura gave me a check-up. Ino stood by for support. 'So he was real' she thought to me. I almost jumped at the mental statement but being trapped by sand has the amazing ability to keep you where you are. Who knew?

'Yeah but it doesn't explain the other voice you heard.'

'No, your mind is pretty locked so I can't do anything else.'

'What if he's communicating with me?' her silence let me told me she didn't know what to think. 'I saw that he had two eyes, unlike my visions, what does that mean?" she shrugged slightly.

I have no clue either, maybe I should just leave my memories alone for awhile and focus on the task at hand. 'Maybe that's for the best.' I heard Ino agree with me, trying not to worry the others by saying it out loud.

I was exhausted with the night's ventures, and I swear I slept like a corpse afterward.

I woke up in the middle of the day and the team regarded me with quick, worried glances. I had told Gaara, Ino, and Sakura to keep quiet about last night, but I guess they didn't. I couldn't blame them though; I guess I would spill if I had to go through Sasuke's silent but unnerving glares and in combination with Naruto's, and Karin's pestering. We walked out to a giant clearing bordered by the Martian trees and I small cliff with a large rock face seemingly floating on the sand. The surrounding area was about a mile in diameter, give or take. The Bitch squad went a little away from me, presumably to decide the lesson or who goes first. I adjusted my ANBU armor and turned to my team, "So any tips?"

"Don't get your ass beat." Sasuke said with all the seriousness of a heart attack. I knew he had more experience with them, so he must have had some sort of idea of their abilities.

"Just do your best, they have a few tricks up their sleeves, so don't let your guard down." Sakura offered.

"Here, Ten-ten shoved more weapons into my leather pack that hung off my belt, "These should help."

"Sand may work against the other two, but don't overuse it, especially against Temari, we trained together, she knows how to fight against it." Gaara advised.

"I know you'll do fine, believe it!" Naruto gave me a thumbs up. I smiled behind my mask, closing my eyes to signal the testament, and everyone gave a smile in return.

"So, 6 you ready" I turned to find Temari at the ready."

"Yeah." We went out o the middle of the clearing and since both teams knew we could control wind, they took refuge behind a few rows of trees. I saw on Temari's back was what looked like one of those fold up fans, except this one was huge! Like 20 times the hand held size, it was held firmly against her back by a thick belt around her torso, "So, you want to go hand-to-hand first, no need to break out the weapons yet." She nodded and tossed her fan back towards the trees, implanting itself 10 feet away from the beginning of the forest. She gestured to me, "I like keep it on my back when I'm not using it."

She shrugged, "To each his own." She got in a fighting stance, I did the same.

She rushed forth sending preparing a punch, I used my left hand and sprung it up and threw it off course. I went with an uppercut and she used her other hand to slap it down while jumping to kick at my shoulder, I crouched down and out of the way while keeping my torso parallel to the ground so my sword wouldn't get stuck in it. I launched myself forward shouldering her in the gut. While being sent back, she managed to elbow me in the face. I ignored the pain in my jaw and put my hand on the ground down to land, Temari was skidding a bit so I ran towards her hoping to catch her off guard with shuriken.

As expected, she bent her body out of the way and snatched one of the weapons and prepared to throw it at me, but I caught up with her using my super-speed, but the strength she held was even in her finger tips, allowing her to toss it a high speed. Sidestepping so it bounced off the arm guard, I used the momentum to swing her around by the wrist I had in my hand, but she countered by burying her fist in the ground, stalling the move so she could grab me with her previously captured hand, and threw me. Good thing her range of motion was limited so I got thrown only 15 feet, and I landed fine.

Neither of us had broken a sweat, we were saving it for later. "You need to stop holding back, just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I don't know how to take a punch!" To punctuate her point she ran over with super speed in a crouched position and tried to uppercut me, I used the arm guards to absorb the hit, but physics demanded I shoot up in the sir. So going with the flow, I rose up and flipped, on the way down I came with a hammer kick to the ground cracking the terrain and sending boulders into the air. Temari had jumped out of the way but was being followed by debris. I quickly wove some hand signs and said "Earth Clone Jutsu." Out of the debris came clones with rectangular, brick-like hands, all aiming for the blonde.

One clone went to slam both brick-hands on both sides of her head. But she landed a kick right in its chin with her super-speed; she then hooked her arm under another clone's arm and threw it into another. She finally landed firmly and ducked as one clone aimed for her head. It soon tried to kick her when she was crouched but she started into a back flip, when she rotated on her hands she made sure to kick its head off. Looking down she saw a shadow that was not her own, she jumped away in time as a particular heavy clone landed on both feet, crushing the ground beneath it. Temari landed a side kick, but caught it and held it close to its body. She tried to wrench it away but it held firm, then she saw why. Before it attacked I had another clone attach a paper bomb onto it.

It exploded with a fury, lighting the already orange sky into a vivid display of blood red, yellow, and a light orange. I watched from my hiding place I went into when she was busy with the clones. I waited patiently and tried to look through the smoke. My Sharingan found her, and my eyes widened. Temari seemed to be covered with what looked like wind, the fire dissipating into it. "Fire can't burn if it's covered with Carbon Dioxide." She smiled smugly. I ordered the last two clones to go after her, she jumped kicked one in the stomach and followed it with a three-hit combo of punches in the jaw, head, and solar plexus. She ran to the last clone, coming at it with a punch, but the clone knocked it away with its right and followed her arm with its hand in a chopping position. Instead of backing up, she moved in, still effectively making the hand miss its target. She used a roundhouse on the clone, and it was powerful, making it fall back a few dozen feet, backside parallel to the ground and still sailing, she jumped so she seemed to be hover above it. She reared a punch and just before it connected I jumped out of my hiding place…from inside the clone! Using my super-strength and speed I punched her in the stomach so hard, you could hear the 'whoosh' from her lungs. She landed near the tree line and her iron fan.

"You said you could take a punch, how was that?" I taunted.

She spit a little blood from her mouth, "I'll admit, that was crafty," She stood up as if I hadn't winded her, "but now it's time to get serious." She reached for the fan and opened it with flair. Wind was swirling around her, causing her dark blonde hair to fly around. I did the same with my sword.

It looked like two tornadoes swirling around us, we walked forward and the tornadoes touched, ripe with chakra the nexus had sparks flying. Our wind nature power seemed equal, but we both knew it was how you wielded it that matters. The tornadoes subsided until a light breeze remained.

Then in the blink of an eye, we ran forward meeting halfway, I swung my sword and she immediately folded the fan and let it meet my weapon. Sparks similar to the two tornadoes shot out. With my Sharingan I saw a magenta-purple chakra was around her fan, which means that there wind upgrading her attacks. But that was okay, because I was doing the same, it was common knowledge that lining your attacks with your element advanced the overall strength, it was also easier and quicker to launch elemental attack, which is what she did next.

She opened her fan and shouted "Gale Force". When she brought the fan down, the chakra came at me, it kind of formed a shape, it's hard to describe, but it was like the business end of a boxing glove, it came quickly and caught me. And I found out that not only was it similar to a boxing glove, it felt like one too. As I was in the air, I lifted my sword to counter and relieve some of the pressure. I got into a baseball-bat-hitting position, and as I swung the flat of the sword and said "Wind Push". It was as like Temari's Gale Force attack but it was shaped like a thick crescent moon, and if it hit you, it was like hitting a wall and 80 mph. She jumped out of immediate danger, but she was still pushed back. I hit the ground running and used the sharp end in the same motion and yelled "Slicing Wind".

All you could see was a white translucent knife of wind coming at Temari. She stood her ground and leveled her fan and let it rip while shouting "Wind Scythe". I watched as what seemed like the wind had tentacles that cut anything it came in contact with, including my attack. Thanks to my Sharingan I could see it and arm my sword with a fast spinning current so I could bat away most of the tendrils of wind. Some of them came below and behind me, slicing me up pretty good. Three slashes on my arm, five on my legs and one on my left shoulder and a small scratch on the back of my hand. I was breathing a little heavier but for some reason I felt extremely drained.

I bent my knees a little and focused my chakra, flaring it up and spreading it to my limbs. Temari moved forward closing her fan and moving it to hit me, I jerked my sword to block; it was not the end of her attack though. I noticed too late that it was sideways, so Temari opened it up and smacked my ribs, wind enforced too. I went flipping in the air. I caught my self and slid backwards, another wave of fatigue caught me and I dropped to my knees. This was no ordinary fatigue, not even close, everything seemed blurry, sounds came with a static. Crap! There goes my vision, good thing my Sharingan's not just for seeing, so I can still see the colors, flickering like a flame. Somewhere far off there was a sound, I couldn't decipher it, but the color stretched like a boxing glove and I knew what was coming. I controlled the chakra in my legs to move and it responded slowly. I got clipped and I was sent through a tree.

This is totally scaring me, I seem to resemble a rag doll, I was taking huge breaths but it did no good. I forced my head to look up and I saw the magenta-purple flame coming forward. Chakra swirled around a dark space, I recognized it as her fan and it was coming towards me, it was enclosing—so close.

A dull thump was heard, and now since she was closer her words weren't complete gobblity-gook, "Huh, sand?"

Yep, If I can't move my body then I'll move my chakra, "Gaara! You can't help him!"

"It's not him," That's what I meant to say but it sounded more like "Hitti's nozts bim" I stared right at her.

"You shouldn't be able to see me…" She trailed off but I knew why.

"Zoe's fishes fourer hootfin" Translation: "So this is your doing."

"You guessed it." Jeez, she must have done this a lot if she can understand me. "How is this wall here? How can you see me? You must have quite the mental strength."

"Fat zand Fartygun" Translation: "That and Sharingan."

"I see…" She got that out before I willed sand spikes out of the ground, "Man you're like a downed dog that who still growls if anyone comes near." Better than a dead one in my opinion.

As I kept her a bay with sand, I focused some of the Sharingan on my body. Beneath the white-blue chakra of my own, and the mysterious orange chakra, I picked up small hints of Temari's chakra. I focused on it. Trying to get my colored sight to magnify the intruding chakra, and there it was.

In my bloodstream!

Oh crap. That's what she's been doing! She's been deoxygenating my blood, making me more tired because I can't get enough oxygen. It must have happened when she cut me, offering access to my blood and pulling out oxygen.

But apparently while I was being shocked as all hell, I let down my sand guard. That is the one good part of having powers that don't turn off, even if you're almost down for the count, you're still good until a comrade comes. I hear, "Wind Wall!" and I see a mini tornado of chakra come to my rag doll body and pick it up, the wind slices me, it's like little scratches, but a lot of little scratches can be bad too. Damnit! What can I do?

"Use it against her…"

'That voice, so dark… so guttural! You must be what Ino heard!'

"Correct." It answered. The way it spoke was like a deeply voiced gentleman you see in movies just before he brings the poor girl to his apartment and cuts her up. You know, Smooth with a hint of mysteriousness, throw in some contempt, dash of power, and why the hell not? Put some Dark overlord in there and stir until boiled. "Your sarcasm is impressive…Given the situation…" It paused, "I can help you."

I was in a bad situation getting worse; I don't see how a little help could make things worse. 'One question,'

After what seemed like forever to consider it answered. "Go ahead."

'Are you something like Obito?' I heard a surprised sound, which seemed out of character for Mr. Sooth and Deadly here.

"A presence in your mind…yes, but I stem from somewhere deeper in you, the Obito presence doesn't." That left more questions then answers but I accepted it.

'Okay, then get me out of this.' I felt myself shrinking back in my mind, looking through my eyes, but not like they were my own, like looking through binoculars, there was two circles that overlapped slightly but still could be identified as circles. The dull senses I had were getting even duller. I realize I was now on the inside looking out. Then everything went black after that.

Temari stopped the jutsu to let 6 down. But not for pity, but because the way he was breathing changed completely. No gasping for air, but a calm sort of breathing. As the wind started to die down, she saw something come out of the translucent wall. It was a gust of wind! Coming straight from the Wind Wall!

It pushed Temari back, it was painful, but it was not necessarily lethal. She looked up and saw 6's usual playful demeanor completely replaced. His normal eye was now red but with a slit like a predatory animal. She could feel her jutsu still in affect, so how is it that he's standing? She tapped twice on the sand with her right foot and eight times with her left, it was a message to Gaara to check things out.

But she didn't need to. The others could feel a difference in their friend and a shiver down their spines. "His chakra amount enormous! It's Noah Level!" Karin said, shivering and sweating so much that her glasses were the equivalent of the wind shield on a rainy day.

Sasuke's Sharingan was activated and he was wide eyed, "It's a different color. There's some White, like usual, but there's mostly Blood Red." Naruto was right next to him tightening his grip on Sasuke's leg, to calm both himself and Sasuke, since the only way you could tell Mr. Stoic was scared was if you knew him very well.

Naruto had a very special bond with his friends, if one was in trouble he'd get a gut feeling a rush there without a second thought, but it was like even though 6 was right in front of him, their hearts weren't connected. Sasuke noticed Naruto shaking and gave a reassuring squeeze to Naruto's hand. Had it been a normal soldier, their hand would've been broken.

Sakura was next to Ino who was currently gripping her head, "So many," She whispered.

"What do mean?" Sakura asked since they were both shaking, her instincts telling her to run. She held Ino as she leaned against her.

"There are many presences in his mind." She bit her tongue to not tell about Obito, which was between 6 and her. But she could sense, 6, Obito, and the thing she noticed the night before, but it was louder, stronger, and so sad.

Gaara could feel each step 6 took was stilted, unsure. He knew the extent of his sister's jutsu. He should be rag-doll-like instead of puppet-like. "That's barely 6." He said, everyone turned.

"Barely?" Ten-ten said, metal in her pouch was jingling as if they were shivering.

"It's his appearance, his body, but something's controlling him like a puppet. Karin, Sasuke! Remember everything you can about this chakra!"

"No problem…" They both said, but everyone knew what the unsaid was; "Because it's unforgettable." The color, the amount, everything.

Gaara bumped sand under Temari's feet three times, telling her to go on the defensive; he added an extra bump after a slight pause, meaning to be extremely careful.

6, other rather 6's body, moved the sword in the wind push position, except the sharp end was facing Temari, "Crescent Moon Cut…" A disturbing of 6's voice coupled with the Dark presence said quietly, but right now it was the loudest thing any of them heard. Any stilted motion was absent as the possessed man swung the sword, due to muscle memory the presence didn't need to fight with the body's fatigue and rough transition into control.

The attack seemed to cut any sand or rock that stood in its way. "Wind Scythe," Temari called, she put all she had into it and it bounced off the attack like rubber. She tried to move but Wind seemed to take the form of shackles and wrap around her feet. She couldn't break out with her super strength and it was spinning so fast she couldn't match it with wind in the other direction.

"I surrender!" Temari called to 6. Desperately hoping she could get through to him but the Cut came still, it was too late. "AAAAAHHHH!"

CRACK

Wind splayed around everywhere, it was like a concussion bomb and knocked everyone back.

…..

….

After the wind died down everyone opened their eyes and ran to the scene. Temari was still in one piece. She looked up at 6 still obviously under someone else's control. "Gotcha"

Needless to say, everyone was mouths as foot warmers. They dropped that low.

"WHAT!" Was the collective replay.

"Even if I was darker than 6, I'm still 6."

"This doesn't make any sense." Naruto said rubbing his temples.

"Are you the part that 6 lost when he lost his memories?" Ino asked bluntly. The dark 6 replaced his sword on his back and turned to her.

"Yes and No" Ino rubbed her head, "Sorry. I'm sure my consciousness is quite loud." She closed her eyes and nodded. "I can put up mental walls whenever I come out."

"That'd be great, thanks." She blinked, "Does that mean that you're the one who caused 6 to lose his memory?"

"Yes and No"

"Do you have any intent to overtake 6's body?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes and No"

Do you have any relation to the Biju Project?" Gaara asked suddenly.

"Yes and No"

Naruto had had it, he flapped his arms up and down in frustration saying, "Are you going to say anything besides 'Yes and no'?"

"No. Oh, wait, since I just said 'no' and that's different, but I still don't intend to say anything else. Yes and No. Don't you just love logic?"

All of them did a cartoonish fall and the dark 6 laughed. They silently agreed that he certainly still was 6. "Relax, I'm just here to help 6." Even in this lighter mood his voice was dark and could make the Noah Hidan shrivel up and die.

"Well since your different from 6, maybe you have a name?" Temari asked.

He seemed to consider this before answering, "Void."

Everyone thought it was appropriate enough, his voice was devoid of anything except bloodlust, and he was the only one who could fill in the that was 6's memories.

"I have to go back to 6's subconscious now, he'll have a headache and, you still have to deal with the deoxygenating jutsu, tell 6 what happened." He already knew they were going to keep this quiet. "The quest for his memories is important, and I only remember certain things. Please don't impede him. I will tell him my existence anyways. You remember his medical needs?" He directed at Sakura, she nodded. Behind his mask one side lifted in a crooked smile, and he flicked his wrist in a wave right before the normal eye turned to onyx black and his eyes rolled to the back of his head as he fell in a crumpled heap.

Sakura rushed over and started taking car of the scratches as Temari deactivated the jutsu. A few minutes later 6's eyes flicked open. "Man, I have a headache from hell," He paused to take a headache-relief pill from Sakura, "what happened?" Everyone exchanged glances. It wasn't a good sign in his opinion.

"Well…"

I was slacked jawed. I couldn't believe what they were telling me. "So, in a nutshell, you have a split personality that apparently knows something about your past, is a prankster, and is arrogant." Sakura diagnosed.

"And he won't tell me why?"

"He said he only knew certain things, maybe he wants you to do it on your own." Sasuke suggested.

"Can you sense him now?" I asked Ino.

"He's deep in your psyche, and it's like he's sleeping with his eyes open."

"Huh?" Naruto and I said.

"What she means is that people with split personalities have a dominant personality and another that is unaware of the dominant. But in this case the personalities see and feel everything that goes on. Interesting." She was going into nurse mode now, she seemed to be thinking really hard.

"Well I guess I'd rather have him sleeping than talking, too weird."

"Anyway, you've got to fight Ino next so rest while you can" Temari yawned. She sat down next to Ten-ten and used her lap as a pillow and promptly fell asleep. Ten-ten would've moved but Temari's got at least 40 pounds on the girl.

"She's got the right idea." Naruto relaxed in a tree that Sasuke took refuge in and snored as soon as he fell asleep.

"That sounds nice," I said, "You guys will wake me up 15 minutes before the fight starts, right?"

"Yeah, so you stretch out and shake the sleep away." Ino said. I just smiled. 'Ino'

'Yeah?'

'You seem scared.'

'I'm not.'

'Bullshit'

'Ok, when you transformed, there were such blood lust and Void's mind seemed…overpopulated, with memories, more like sound clips.'

'What did you hear?' There was a long pause.

'Someone in pain and…'

'And?'

'It sounded like you were dying.' I forced myself not to jump. I looked over, she was talking to the rest of the group with a smile. I wonder how she does that.

A/N: DONE! Finally, the chapter was a bitch to get out! I'm hot and my back hurts, I'm going to eat and relax. Review!