Hey, I don't see why most of you decided to bite my head off about the whole Neverland Ranch thing. It was only a threat. He does not have to go to Neverland Ranch because of your reviews.

Anyway, I deserved you biting my head off just a little, but it was just an experiment. I wanted to see how many revies I could get. My experiment is complete, and I will not be threatening Naruto like that again.

Riyu: Finaly! What are you going to be threatening now.

Riyuto-san: You.

Riyu: What! Why!

Riyuto-san: It's because you won't stop complaining about the fact that you belong to me. Plus, I feel like it. Maybe if you do the disclaimer for me, I'll reconsider.

Riyu: Fine. Riyuto-san does not own Naruto, but he does own Zulku and me. There, you happy.

Riyuto-san: Yes, now, on with the story.

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Chapter 5. The Temple of Lost Souls

It wasn't the temple itself that had overwhelmed the four members of Team 7, it was the ominous presence that could be felt everywhere. There were massive chakra spikes emmiting from and surrounding the stoned temple. The massive chakra spikes would spring up out of nowhere before disappearing altogether. On the temple, the central tower that rose higher than the other sides of the tower was where most of the more powerful chakra spikes were occuring. Naruto's eyes were glued to the temple. Neither Naruto nor his teammates could pull their eyes off of it.

"So, why is this place called the Temple of Lost Souls anyway?" He asked, unable to tear his eyes off of the enormous underground building that sat before him.

"It's only a legend in Konoha. It was said that when someone with evil in their hearts or had done something evil, their soul would come to this temple. Until recently, it was thought to have been destroyed, or never existed." Kakashi said, also not having the ability to tear his eyes off of the temple.

Kakashi's eyes ventured towards the massive tower on top of the temple. It looked different from the temple itself. The temple, from end to end, appeared to be nothing more than old stone. On the other hand, the tower was well rounded and seemed to be fairly new. The stones bore no cracks, but it still seemed old, in some ways. When his eyes ventured to from the top of the tower to the roof of the cavern, his visible eye widened a bit in realization.

He pointed up at the ceiling. "Do you see that ceiling?"

The three genin followed his finger and looked up at the ceiling he was pointing to.

"So what? No disrespect intended, sensei, but it only appears to be a ceiling. Isn't it?" Sakura asked, confused as to why the ceiling was so important. To her, it was just an ordinary ceiling, complete with rock slabs dropping down from it, and never actully falling from it. She saw cracks that ran from the ceiling in every direction. Iit looked as if it could collapse at any moment.

Kakashi shook his head as he lowered his hand.

"Then what is it?" Riyu asked. He, too, thought it as nothing more than a boring ceiling.

"I'll tell you what it is." He started. "That ceiling is, basically, the ground that you walk on every day of your life. That is the village, Konohagakure. Apparently, we spiraled down without realizing it." Kakashi finished in a casual tone.

"No way!" Naruto yelled in surprise.

"Way." Kakashi answered.

"Wait. Hold up a minute." Sakura ordered, a confused look spread across her face, "If that is the village, then how come it hasn't fallen down into here yet?"

Kakashi shrugged. "It's probably because that this temple is so far down. I highly doubt that the village would succumb to this place."

Sakura couldn't help but marvel at the mere sight of the enormous temple. The huge walls, the emerald glass windows on the temple, the elogant tower that rose up to the ceiling, and the pathway that led to the entrance of the temple. The pathway had sculptures of foxes, frogs, snakes, eagles, hawks, dogs, and a few other animals that she couldn't identify.

She couldn;t help but marvel at it's size, shape, and its...

"Hey, Sakura! Are you coming or what?" Naruto's voice came, arousing Sakura from her thoughts. She glanced over at the entrance and found that Naruto, Riyu, and Kakashi were waiting for her at some massive doors Sakura assumed was the entrance.

She quickly sprinted over to her companions, who were getting eager to get in, and aggrivated for her taking so long to get there. After jumping over some old stones, she made it to the doors. She stood in front of the doors, and immediately looked them over. She didn't know what it was about this place, but it captured her thoughts and held them hostage from her. The doors were massive, three times as big as her house. The knockers were built in statues of frogs. One was red, and the other one was green. She continued to gaze upon the doors until she heard an annoying voice. And it wasn't Naruto's.

"Do you think Sakura's jealous of it's beauty?" She heard Riyu whisper to Naruto. Naruto tried his hardest not to laugh, but small chuckles still escaped. Sakura grew angry very quickly. She turned around and pummeled his head into the ground.

"What was the question again?" She asked in a 'answer me wrong and I'll kill you' way. After Riyu got out of the crater Sakura had forced him into, he looked into her eyes and saw the ferocity in them. He started to pale.

"Nothing, Sakura. Nothing at all." He answered nervously, waving his hands in front of his face and shaking his head side to side.

"All right you two." Kakashi said, slightly amused. "I'm going to stop this before Sakura kills you, Riyu. Since there appears to be two different directions in the temple, we are going to split up. Since I can't trust Sakura and Riyu to stay together and both of them come out alive, I'm taking Sakura with me. Naruto and Riyu, you two will go right. Sakura and I will go left. Is that understood?"

All three genin nodded in agreement.

'They do that alot.' Kakashi observed. Shrugging off that thought, he turned towards the ominous doors. He brought his right hand up to his chin as if to ponder.

"All right team. I'm going to need your help openning this door. I suspect that it will be extremely heavy." Kakashi said as he took a pushing position on the door.

"Oh, come on Kakashi-sensei. How heavy can a dumb door be?" Naruto asked sarcastically, like the door was probably as heavy as a feather. He went up to the door and readied himself as well. When Riyu and Sakura did the same, they all pushed.

Naruto was wrong. Just as Kakashi had predicted, the door was enormously heavy. After driving the majority of their own respective chakra down in their feet, the door began to slightly budge. Riyu grunted as he pushed even harder. The necklace, once again, went unnoticed as it began leaking out more blue chakra. Finally, after what seemed like an eon of pushing, the door opened up just enough for each of them to slip through.

Once they were successfully inside the temple, they could all feel a chill running through the air. Sakura and Riyu both shuddered because they weren't wearing warm clothes.

Riyu spotted an old fashioned unlit candle chandelier dangling from the ceiling of the temple. Aiming carefully, he shot four fireballs into the air and caught each candle. The flames burst on the candle sticks as they began to dance on top of them. The flames illuminated what appeared to be the main room. But it didn't appear to be any form of a main room. When you think of main rooms, you think of things you want people to see, like pictures, paintings, or at least something to sit on. In here, nothing like that, except for the chandeliers and some candles hanging from the walls, was present in the room. All it was was just an enormous stone room with two different holes in the sides representing the hallways. Nothing more. It was just a big stone room with nothing interesting. The only thing that was even remotely interesting was an enormous pentagon.

"Neh, what's this pentagon thingy for." Naruto asked as he squatted down on it.

Riyu shrugged as he bent down next to Naruto.

"Who knows. All I know is, if this temple is legendary, it must do something. So I say we get of of it before something bad happens." Riyu finished nervously standing up and stepping away from the pentagon. Naruto nodded and did the same. They stood on the outside of the pentagon, staring down at it, side by side.

Kakashi slightly chuckled as he and Sakura approached the boys. He stopped his chuckling when he noticed what the pentagon was for. It was for summoning. Kakashi quickly grabbed the boys shoulders and gently yanked them back a few steps. Just to make sure they wouldn't do something to set it off.

"Hey! What was that for?" Riyu asked as he turned towards his lazy sensei. Naruto also turned to face him, waiting for an explanation. Kakashi sighed for probably the tenth time that day.

"Because this pentagon is used for summonings. And if you two were to somehow activate the summoning, then we would more than likely die." He said, making Naruto and Riyu pale. They exchanged frightened looks before they stepped farther away from it. Sakura chuckled.

"Okay, enough clowning around. Let's get back to the mission. Sakura, you come with me. Naruto, you take Riyu with you the other way." Kakahsi said, pointing at the right end of the enormous room. We are to meet back here in this room in two hours. Am I understood?" He asked for what seemed like the fifth time that day. They all nodded, Naruto and Riyu holding a grin on their faces. Sakura, on the other hand, didn't share the same enthusiasm as the other boys. She felt, deep down in her heart, that something bad was going to happen. She just didn't know what.

"All right, team! Let's go."

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Almost immediately after five minutes of walking, Naruto and Riyu were completely and utterly bored out of their minds. Naruto walked on the left, checking the boring rooms on his side, while Riyu walked on the right, checking the rooms on his side.

All it was was a massive hallway with numerous doors on each side every few feet away. Every room was the same. A square room with a small, square table in the center. There were no window on either side of the walls. And after finding about thirty more rooms just like the first one, Naruto and Riyu stopped searching the rooms and would just glance in them and keep on walking down the hall.

Naruto was starting to fidget. He would rather be anywhere else, even in a school, than stay in this place. At least in a school he could sneak out or take a nap or something. The real torure was the fact that he couldn't get a conversation started with Riyu. Riyu was unusually quiet, he was probably just tired, and it was driving Naruto insane. He knew that, to ensure his survival, he had to start up a conversation. He looked into yet another boring room, and after that waste of time, he started talking to Riyu.

"Riyu?" He began. When Riyu looked in his direction, he continued, "Are you bored too?"

"Extremely."

"Me too." Naruto stated as he folded his arms comfortably behind his head. Riyu turned his head to the right to check out another room. It was still the same. He sighed as he let his arms dangle by his sides. He was really bored.

Suddenly, thanks to Naruto's bored statement, he came up with an idea to pass time. He came up with the best plan to pass the time, the greatest torture he could torture Naruto with. Casually, Riyu looked over at Naruto.

"Hey, Naruto." He said with a slight grin plastered on his face. Naruto looked over at him, hopefull that a conversation would soon be started.

"Yeah?"

"Red is so much cooler than orange will ever be." He said, keeping his grin the same size.'This will definitely push his buttons for sure.' He thought hopefully.

"WHAT!" Naruto yelled at the red clad ninja, "I think you have it backwards. Red sucks, and orange is the color of the gods. How can you pick red over orange?"

"Because..."

"Because what?"

"Because it's more mature."

"That's not true in the slightest. The luckiest and the strongest wear orange." Naruto said, emphasizing the statement by pointing at his own jacket. "Besides, the Yondaime wore orange." Naruto said in triumph. He felt he had won.

"Yeah, he did." Riyu agreed, "And look what happened to him."

"Okay, well how about the fact that..."

It went like that for about an hour. It was their classic red-vs-orange showdown.

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As Sakura and Kakashi made their way down the other hallway, they could feintly hear Naruto's yelling. As they went farther along down the hallway, and Naruto's voice faded away, they only assumed that Naruto was having one of his arguements with Riyu. They both sighed as they checked yet another room.

"Ugh, will those two ever stop their bickering?" Sakura asked, more to herself than to Kakashi.

"I highly doubt it.' Kakashi stated, walking back down the hall to the next room.

They walked on more, finding the same results in every room. They had been walking down this hallway and checking the many rooms for almost an hour now, and they were starting to get annoyed. Well, Sakura more than Kakashi. He seemed to be deep in thought.

'Hmm, this is strange' He thought, 'Every room is the same as the last one. And no windows are visible in any room, even though we all saw them from the outside of this temple.' Kakahi now lowered his head in deeper thought. 'And this hallway doesn't see to end.'

He suddenly stopped and pulled out a single kunai knife. He then approached a side wall and jammed the kunai knife into it. He pulled back and examined it. Determining that the position the kunai was in was adequite, he continued his walk.

Sakura was confused as to why her sensei had stopped and embedded his kunai into the wall. Seeing her confusion, he stopped and turned to her.

"Don't worry about it, Sakura. Just keep walking and, if I'm right, everything should be clear soon." He finished as he started to walk forward. Sakura paused for a brief second before following her lazy sensei.

'I still don't understand what it was that he just did, but I guess I'll find out soon enough.' She thought as she caught up with her sensei and walked next to him.

After a few more minutes of walking, something sticking out of the wall caught the two companions' eyes. Something small, sharp, and deadly.

Kakashi's kunai knife!

Sakura quickly looked to the knife, then at her sensei, back at the knife once more, and then back at her sensei.

"Kakashi-sensei, how is this here? You left your kunai embedded in the wall back there. How did it get up here?" She asked in both disbelief and confusion as her eyes wandered repeatedly from the knife and back to her sensei.

"It's just as I thought." Kakashi stated, apparently ignoring Sakura's previous question.

"What's just as you thought?" She asked, still confused.

Kakashi glanced at Sakura. "Sakura, haven't you been the least bit curious as to why this hallway keeps dragging on, why all the rooms are the same, and why my kunai is still in this wall?" He finished pointing at the kunai in the wall.

Realization finally struck her.

"It's a genjutsu, isn't it?" She asked. Kakashi nodded

"Yes, it is. And a powerful one at that." He said as he walked over to the stone wall and plucked his kunai out.

"Well...how do we break it. If it is really that powerful, can we break it." Sakura asked, almost desperately.

As if in answer to Sakura's question, Kakahsi lifted the left part of his hitae-ate from his eye and moved it up, revealing his blood red sharingan eye. The two black droplets started spinning rapidly as Kakashi analyzed the genjutsu. Soon, it stopped spinning and remained still once again. He brought his hands up once again to his chin, pondering on what he was going to do.

Placing his kunai back into his pouch, he readily brought his hands up, preparing to perform a jutsu.

"Step back Sakura. This could be dangerous." He said. When she did what she was told, he started speeding through hand seals.

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"Red kicks oranges ass any day of the week." Riyu proclaimed as they came across another room, this one exactly the same as the last one. Turning back to the hall, which seemed to drag on and on with no trace of stopping, they continued their arguement.

"No way Riyu. You have it completely backwards!" Naruto retorted at Riyu. "And besides, orange is-Whoah!"

Suddenly, violent pulsations began to run down the hallway, sending both Naruto and Riyu to the ground. The ground, the ceiling, and the walls were rattling violently. Stone slabs began crumbling down from the ceiling, smashing to pieces on contact with the ground. All of the crumbling stones were bearing down onto the two companions, leaving small lumps on each of their heads.

"Shit!" Naruto exclaimed as he barely dodged another enormous slab of rock that tumbled down at him. Their first thoughts were to immediately run straight, but the path was blocked by gigantic slabs of stone and rock. So, they were forced to dodge the slabs. "It's coming down faster and faster. It's getting so hard to dodge!"

'Damn it! What do we do know?' Riyu thought as he narrowly dodged a decent sized slab of stone. 'It's all gonna give way soon anyway. The question is, what do I do now.' He paused for a moment. His eyes widened as an idea struck him.

'I got it. There's no guarentee it'll work, but thats how I like to live.' Riyu thought as he brought his hands up into a single seal.

"Naruto!" Riyu yelled to his partner as he started performing some hand seals. Riyu didn't even wait for Naruto to acknowledge him before he spoke again. "Get as close as you can behind me and duck! Now!" Riyu yelled.

Without argueing, Naruto jumped over and dodged more pieces of rock and rubble as he ran over to his best friend. When he reached Riyu's back, he crouched down.

Riyu did the same, still running through his hand signs.

More and more rubble began to fall, threatening to bury th two young teenagers alive.

Riyu stopped on a single seal.

The roof completely gave way, burying the two friend in an immense sea of stone and rock.

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Almost immediately after Kakashi undid the genjutu, he regretted it. The genjutsu was only a decoy, meant to be detected and dispelled. The real trap was yet to come. The booby trap was to activate as soon as the illusion was dispelled.

But by the time Kakashi had realized this, it was already too late. He quickly turned to a scared Sakura. They made eye contact, and Kakashi could feel her fear. Then, suddenly, there was a rumble, and a few small pieces of rock fell to the ground. Kakashi instantly knew what was coming.

"Run!" He ordered her as he broke into a sprint, running down the hall. Sakura quickly followed, staying close to Kakashi. Glancing back, she could see more and more rubble falling from the ceiling and the cracks forming in the walls from where they previously stood. However, as they got farther and farther away, the falling of stone and rock began to lessen and lessen before stopping altogether. Sakura and Kakashi immediately stopped running and turned back, rubble still falling on the spot where Kakashi had undone the genjutsu.

'This all seems to be a little too extreme.' He thought looking back at the rock falling from the ceiling 'I thought that it was just an old abandoned temple, nothing more. If the builders of this temple went through such extremes, then there must be something very valuable or very sacred in this very temple. Which would mean...' His visable eye widened in realization.

"The rubble was also a distraction." He stated.

"Wh-what do you mean by that?" Sakura asked. She didn't really understand what her sensei was talking about.

"I mean," He began, " That those falling stones were also a distraction. They were not meant to kill us, they were falling to trigger another trap of some kind." He finished turning back to Sakura, trying to make sure she understood what he had just said.

She understood perfectly. Something strong and big was going to be attacking soon, and she wanted to be ready for it.

"What do you think it could be?" She asked, turning her head to meet Kakashi's eyes with her own. Both their eyes then turned to the rubble that cover the ground a little ways behind them. Sakura gasped when she saw a lone figure standing atop the rubble.

He wore a mask, much similar to Kakashi's, except for the fact that it didn't cover his left eye. In his right hand lay a thick, heavy, long, and legendary sword, hanging over his shoulders.

"It's see you still have those brats with you, eh Kakahsi?" The figure said, slowly removing the mask that covered the bottom part of his face. Once it was off, he began taking slow steps towards the duo. "It's been a long time since we met. What has it been? Two years, I think. Am I right?"

Kakahsi recognized the man immediately. It was the same man that he had fought on the Great Nartuo Bridge, The same man that had tried to kill the bridge builder, Tazuna. It was the Demon of the Mist.

It was Momochi Zabuza that stood before them, wearing a moniacle grin on his hateful face.

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Cool, two cliffies in one chapter. Well, if you count the whole Zabuza thing a cliffy, then it's a cliffy. I bet that none of you saw that coming. I practically gave you all a clue with the title of the chapter and temple. The Temple of Lost Souls. Zabuza was evil, he died. I figured I could work him in. Not that much happened in this chapter, but it only gets better from here.

To those of you reading this without official fan fiction accounts, you can review for this story. I looked at the story stats. Over 2000 people have read it, and I only have 26 reviews. Is it just that you are too lazy to review, or you don't think you can. I accept any kind of review.

To those of you who did review, as promised, here's your review answers. Enjoy!

T.O.B: Thanks for your answer. Do you always start your reviews out like that. That's neat, I wish I had a catch phrase. ( just so all you non-members know, he's not a member either)

Dragon Man 180: I know, and she did beat me up using Jyuken style. It hurt very badly. The temple relating to the title, not really. You keep getting close, but T.O.B is much closer than you are. By the way, there is something special in this temple that sets the adventure in the story. About the bet, you're close, but no cigare. It does involve Naruto and Hinata, though. I told you Riyu has a betting problem.

Light of the Demons: I had heard he moved, but to the middle east. Do you think he's really the Iraq commander. That would explain alot. Anyway, thank you for the answer, you just saved part of my story. Thanks again.

Lyra the Sorceress of Scholars: I admit, it does sound a little dramatic. And the if the dramatic thing about the jutsu are the capitol letters. I kinda accidentally hit caps lock, and realized I did after I updated. It wouldn't have happened if they hadn't put the caps lock button on top of the shift button anyway. And what do you mean you think. You put me on alert.

almostinsane: Don't worry, I didn't send him there. Again, God bless you too.

Thanks for the reviews. They make me feel good.

By the way, I'm just curious. I know what most slang means, but I can't figure out what the hell XD means. Please tell me.

Since Riyu did such a good job at doing the disclaimer for me, I'm just going to leave you with with a question about Naruto.

Where is the Cloud from, anyway. I now know why they hate the Hyuga, but I need to know where they are. This question has been plagueing my mind for a few days now.

Read and review. Please, for the sake of this fiction, review. How about this, 5 reviews or no update.

PEACE!