A/N: Hello one and all! It's me again! So I've been thinking about this for a while, and I finally got a prophecy, but it's going to be next chapter. But see, the thing is, it's going to be soooooooooo surprising you're never going to believe it! And the prophecy, in my opinion, is wicked :D

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August 25, 2009

Chapter Seven: The Master of Time, the Corrupter of Life

POV of Robert Uchiha

Amanda, Kakashi, Taylor, Jordan, and I all arrived at the giant doors, stopping at the same time. In front of us were the doors to a giant city. On the giant wall was a symbol. The same symbol that Kakashi had on his headband. A circle that caves in on itself and a triangle on its side that connected to the side of the circle. I wondered what it could mean.

"This is the village of Konoha, more formally known as the Village Hidden in the Leaves," Kakashi told us formally. "Taylor, Jordan, you two will have to get passes from the kiosk right inside to stay here. I'll provide an apartment on one condition: you become a five-man team with Robert and Amanda."

Jordan and Taylor looked at each other skeptically. What did Kakashi mean by a five-man team? "Taylor and I do not know each other very well. We have only met yesterday" was Jordan's answer. He had trouble finding the right words to use, but he finally found it.

"We will be able to work it out," Taylor shot back quickly, then added, "Will Robert and Amanda be staying with us?"

"No, they will be going back to America to stay. They already have prior boarding set up," Kakashi informed her, and continued on to say, "I will call upon them as needed. Liz will also be staying with you. Do you have a picture of Liz with you?"

Taylor nodded her head and Kakashi bit his tongue. I could see that you needed a picture to stay in the village, kind of like a driver's license, but I didn't see why Liz couldn't take the picture later. Kakashi came to the same conclusion.

I looked over at Taylor and at her grey eyes. They looked like storms, really. I could see that she was worried. They looked tired also, as if she had been up all night. Maybe she had been tending to Liz, trying to stop that… that transformation. Whatever the reason, it made her looked fifteen instead of how old she told me, which was twelve. Two years… that doesn't really matter. I then thought back to the trees when Kakashi had to carry me… two years… that's a lot of time. She had two more years to train….

I tried to make myself believe that.

"C'mon, let's go in," Kakashi finally murmured. "I wonder why the doors are close…."

He went up to the door and pushed in a few areas with his hands. A few seconds went back and the door went into the walls to either side. The symbol split in half as the doors opened like those automatic doors at Shop Rite. It was all kind of amazing if you ask me. In only a few days my life had been flipped inside-out.

"Welcome…," Kakashi said as we walked into the walled area, "to Konoha. The Village of the Leaf."

I stared into the Village. It wasn't anything that I was expecting. I thought that this would be a huge city, with towering skyscrapers and cars flooding the streets and people yelling at those reckless drivers. But none of that was here. Not one bit.

It was horrible. Everything seemed to be burned and downsized. I looked over at Kakashi to see his reaction, and it was just as I suspected: He didn't suspect this. His eye went wide and he ordered us to stay and get the passes. With those words he jumped off and set out to find the answer to the question of what happened.

"Oi! Who are you guys?" I looked over to where the voice came from and I saw the man. He had orange and black clothes on that were tucked in. It looked almost like a coat, but I knew it wasn't. It was his shirt and pants, not a coat. He had two pouches on either side of his waist.

Oh, and he looked like a total idiot.

"My name is Robert, this is Amanda, Jordan, and Taylor," I introduced us. "We need to get passes so that we can stay in the Village. Well… only Jordan and Taylor need passes. We're leaving as soon as Kakashi comes back."

"You know where Kakashi is?" he called out, reaching into one of his pouches. From what I knew, in that pouch was one of those knives Kakashi used. The others also knew what he was doing, and Taylor and Jordan had reached into their own pouches.

"Look, we don't want to fight," Amanda called up to him. He seemed to loosen, but he still held his hand in his pouch. Why did he care we were with Kakashi?

Kakashi appeared behind the man and held his own knife to his throat. The orange-suited man first had a surprised look on his face, but then burst out laughing. Kakashi lowered his knife and put it back in his pouch without a single laugh.

"Hello, Naruto," he sneered in a child-like tone.

"Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto cried out, his eyes gleaming. "Where have you been? You've been disappearing so much lately."

Kakashi put on a pained face. Well, as much of a pained face you can with a mask and one eye covered. "… For how long?"

"Well you disappeared two days ago, but we thought you were just on a mission. But Grandma Tsunade didn't know of any mission-we found that out yesterday. But we decided we'd wait a few days to see if you came back, which you did!"

Naruto seemed to be very hyperactive. Kind of like me, but I haven't been feeling like myself lately. With my step-dad dyeing and finding out I have super powers and being attacked by bird-ladies and… ugh. It's just all so tiring. If only I had some time to take a nap. Just for an hour.

The masked man nodded thoughtfully, turning back to us. He helped us get our passes, and even got Amanda and me one even though we weren't going to stay in the Village. He told us that we were probably going to come back to the Village sooner or later. I guess that made sense, but after seeing Liz on that rage, I was afraid who else I would meet.

"We have been in war with the Akatsuki for some time now," Naruto told us after we got our cards and our pictures taken. Kakashi said that we would get a team photograph the next time we come. I wondered if Liz was going to be okay. I sure hope so. Even though I hadn't even met her, I knew what it would feel like for Jordan and Taylor to….

"Tell me about the… Akatsuki," Amanda said as we walked to Lady Tsunade's residence. Kakashi supposedly promised Naruto to get him "ramen" from some restaurant, so we were also getting ramen. Then he would take us to Camp Half-blood while Naruto went back to work as an "Anbu Black Op." To me it sounded like some kind of racism group, but who am I to judge?

"No, first tell us what happened with the Village," Kakashi blurt out before Naruto could say anything. "Why is everything burnt?"

Naruto's face grew grave. He didn't want to be the one to tell his sensei (I assumed that Kakashi was his sensei since he kept calling him "Kakashi Sensei"). "… Itachi and Kisame were able to breach the Village. Sasuke and I were the first to know, and Sasuke got caught up with his anger for Itachi. One minute he was worried about you and where you were, the next he went after Itachi. He hasn't showed up since, and a team was made to go out and look for him."

Kakashi nodded. "You didn't go?" he asked, trying not to show his curiosity.

"No" was his simple answer. "The Village needs me incase of another attack. How was your trip to America?" Naruto shot back, trying to change the subject.

"Excellent," Kakashi replied. "We can move forward with our plan. Do you even remember the plan, Naruto?"

"Of course, Kakashi Sensei!" he cried out, as if offended that his mentor had called him forgetful. Well, he somewhat did, indirectly.

The silver-haired man sighed and put both his hands behind his back. He started to make hand signs. I had no idea of what to do. Should I go along with Kakashi's example and attack Naruto who should I attack Kakashi? Who's the evil one?

"Lightning Blitz," the man murmured, and lightning started to burst from his hands. Naruto backed away a little, and then chirping started. That's when he created two clones like Kakashi had back when we first met him. Man, it felt like a million years ago.

The clones pushed air into Naruto's hand and a type of blue orb started to appear. It grew four points and looked to be a ninja star made of energy. With a swift movement, one clone disappeared and the other clone help the real orange-haired boy carry the Mega-Orb-of-Ninja-Star-Ness.

Kakashi leaped under Naruto's feet as he flew by and rebounded off a wall. Naruto tried to turn, but Kakashi had already caught the boy in the gut with one of his lightning-filled hands. Naruto grunted and the clone disappeared.

Unlike when he was killing the phoenix, it didn't stop at that jab. Instead, he leaped into the air, lightning still busting from his hands, Naruto still in arms. We all watched the show. It was amazing, yet scary. Kakashi had launched into the air and was able to rebound off the air to go skyward, creating a lightning bolt. When he seemed to be one million miles off the earth, he stopped at the middle of the lightning bolt.

And fell. He sliced through the lightning and I could see Naruto under Kakashi. The lightning had transferred to his feet and he was spinning rapidly. On top of Naruto. Ouch.

Taylor was the first to react. She drew one of her scrolls and bit her thumb. Blood started to trickle out and she sliced the scroll, leaving a trail of blood on it. In an instant, water poured out from the other side. I could believe what I was seeing. Could this really have been real, or was I still at the hospital, dreaming?

No. I didn't have this kind of imagination. This was really happening. Taylor put her hands together as if she were praying and the water started to move. It then surrounded the lightning and hid Kakashi and Naruto from peering eyes. In a second, it transformed into ice, but the water was still inside the ice. I could see it moving.

We all waited for the moment the two would hit the ground. When they hit the ground, I felt the impact. It blasted me off my feet, as well did it do to the others. Ice shattered, but Taylor didn't let it near us. She was able to use her powers to rebound it. We got to our feet in time to see something.

Poof. Just like that. Smoke appeared where Naruto and Kakashi were, filling the air. We waited… waited… Jordan had drawn a knife as well did Taylor. They took aim while the smoke started to wither away.

Kakashi stood alone. He had obliterated Naruto. That's incredible. He had that much power?

"Αναθεματισμένος," Kakashi cursed. Taylor and Jordan looked confused, but whatever. Amanda had told me that Half-bloods can understand Greek. Obviously they weren't Half-bloods.

Wait. Why did he say a bad word? He had just destroyed Naruto as he wanted! "That wasn't Naruto," Kakashi told us as he walked over. Oh. Okay. "His name is Cronos."

Bells started to go off in my head. Cronos. Where had I heard that name before? I racked my brains and pondered.

Then it hit me. "You mean the Cronos? The Cronos that ate his kids? The Cronos that got sliced into one million pieces and was sent to the darkest depths of Tartarus?" Kakashi nodded.

Oh. Well then.

"We're leaving immediately. You need a prophecy. Naruto is dead."

That hit home. I felt like I had just been hit by a bus. Not that I ever was hit by a bus, but you get what I mean.

"Cronos is the Master of Time and Corrupter of Life," Kakashi stated, pacing. "You need a new prophecy. That prophecy is false, and I have simple reasoning for that, but I can't tell you yet. You first have to come with me."

He ordered Taylor and Jordan to go to the hospital to see Liz. I wanted to protest to say that Taylor should come with us since she had helped us so much, but I didn't feel like getting in Kakashi's way. He was intense.

Taylor and Jordan left for the hospital reluctantly, and Kakashi said that we were going back to America. The thing is, now we were going to Camp Half-blood. He said we would spend the night so that we can play Capture the Flag. I don't see why he wanted us to play, but whatever. It sounded like fun. He also wanted us to meet some of the other campers to see who was coming with us.

"Don't worry about all this now," he told us quickly as we rushed to the boat. It must've been one o'clock in the afternoon, but I was dead-tired. I suddenly felt like a little kid again, needing a nap. "Chiron and Mr. D will tell you everything you need to know. I will drop you off at Half-blood Hill since I can't go in. I will send you a letter."

We both nodded. I suddenly thought back to the scroll with the Jutsu on it and the letter. I looked over at Amanda and decided not to. We would be able to later. Not now. Too much was going on and I think Kakashi would explode if that were to happen. I also wanted to ask about Naruto some more, but I caught my tongue. I didn't want to mention his student.

His former student.