A/N: Sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm really sorry for the late update. Ya see, it was end of semester and the teachers, well, put a lot of pressure at the end. And I haven't had time to write until now, I'm really sorry, seriously. But here's the new chapter, hope you like it.

Somewhere in Konoha:

Zoro was running towards a strong presence that he was sensing with his haki. He made some turns, and some other turns, and didn't find anything. He kept running for some time now when suddenly he heard a scream and ran towards it. We he got there he saw a little boy and girl that were being attacked by a huge centipede. They cried out loud, closed their eyes and waited for the huge centipede to fall over them, but instead of that hey heard something else.

"Shishi Sonson!"…Zoro said. And after that, the centipede was slashed in half and then disappearing in a 'puff'.

Both kids opened their eyes only to see a cloud of smoke from where the centipede used to be. Hey were both shocked and then turned to see the man that was in front of them,

"Are you both ok?"…Zoro asked.

"Y-yea, t-thank you sir for saving us"…The kid said.

"No big deal, but now you have to go and find somewhere safe"…Zoro said in a serious tone looking at the sky. "Things are going to get awful". And with that he left both kids and ran towards a strong presence he was feeling.

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Tsunade's office:

Ino was running through the halls as fast as she could, she wanted to inform the Hokage about this. When she reached the door of Tsunade's office she knocked before entering.

"You may enter"…She heard Tsunade say from the inside.

Ino quickly opened the door and entered. "Tsunade, we have a great prob…"…Ino said but stopped a mid-sentence when she saw that in the room were Kakashi, some ANBU ninjas and some other people. "Guess you already know huh"…Ino said a bit red from embarrassment for storming in and all that.

"Yea, were now discussing what we're going to do"…Kakashi said.

"But for now, we need you to help the rest of the ninjas out there and the civilians that are injured"…Tsunade said worried.

"R-right away!"… Ino said and ran out to do what she was told.

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Back with Zoro:

Zoro was standing there doing nothing but look forward with a focused face. Another man was looking at him with a sadistic-like face. He didn't have any hair meaning he was bold and with spikes coming out of his head, a lot of piercings or whatever those black sticks that he had all over the body where, a black cloak with red clouds, and weird eyes, they were like purple with rings, Zoro just thought they were weird.

"He looks quit dead, I mean, he does have a strong presence and all that but, I can't seem to feel any like, just energy, maybe that's what they call chakra I think. But it doesn't matter if he's dead or not, he's pretty strong and dangerous, better stay sharp"…Zoro thought while looking straight ahead. "Seems I'm going to have to fight you, hope you give me a better fight than those insects"…Zoro said smirking.

The man said nothing and just smiled. "Less talk and more fight, I like that"…Zoro thought.

The man started running towards Zoro while Zoro did the same. Zoro had two swords ready to strike (Shusui and Sandai Kitetsu), meanwhile the other man had two sticks that came from his sleeves. They both clashed and started clashing their respective weapons. Zoro swung his blade aiming for the gut but the other guy dodged and counterattacked with a thrust to Zoro's eye which Zoro dodged to. They both began slashing one another but neither of them landed a blow. They both pushed themselves back and looked each other in the eyes. Both were smiling.

"He's strong, glad he is because if not this could've been boring"…Zoro thought.

After a while of just staring at each other, the other guy detached is right hand and some missiles were coming out of his wrist. Zoro stared wide eyed.

"What the hell, is he some kind of cyborg?"…Zoro said out loud but no response came from the other man.

The missiles that were coming out of his wrist ignited and went towards Zoro. Zoro snapped back from his confused state and started dodging and cutting each and every missile that came to him.

"You'll have to do better than that to beat me"…Zoro said smirking. He wasn't surprised anymore, I mean, he has already saw lots of cyborgs before (Franky, Kuma, and the PX's).

The man opened his head and Zoro could see it was made of iron or something like that. Energy suddenly started to gather in the top. All of a sudden a blast came from there and went directly to Zoro. Zoro didn't have time to dodge and the blast created a huge explosion. A lot of dust was formed and the man couldn't see Zoro. After the dust died out the man was surprised to see that Zoro was still alive and had blocked the blast crossing his swords in front of him.

"Ha, so it was a cannon, huh?"…Zoro said. "You sure are full of surprises".

"What a persistent bastard"…The man growled.

"So you do talk?"…Zoro mused.

The man said no more and started to form to heads on this head. Now he had three heads. He took off his cloak and revealed that he had now six arms.

Zoro stared at him surprised. "Huh, seems you have something in common with me. Let's see whose is better"…Zoro said while unsheathing out his third sword and putting it on his mouth. He prepared his stance.

"Kiki Kyuutouryuu!"…And with that said, Zoro began forming two more heads and four more arms. Now they both were the same but with their own different looking.

The man looked surprised too and stood there with his mouth wide opened. But after a moment he recovered from the shock and smirked. "Yea, let's see whose is better". And with he made some weapons come out from his body: missiles, some sharp things and stuff that can cut (that saw-like thing).

They both ran towards each other and were ready to strike their last attack to finish this with one blow. The man while running lunched missiles to Zoro. Zoro just kept cutting them with any sword of the nine he had.

When they were mere centimeters away from each other, the man swung his saw and aimed for Zoro's gut. Zoro just kept running full speed ahead directly towards the other guy. In a blink both were on the opposite side from where they were in the beginning and were giving each other their backs.

"Ashura…Ichibugin!"…When Zoro said that the other man fell down in pieces. "Seems like…mine was better"…Zoro said smirking after he sheathed his swords and turned to look at him. He then walked away leaving him like that.

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Somewhere else in Konoha:

Ino was tending some ninjas that were injured because someone from Pain had beaten them pretty badly. After helping all those that were in that area, she decided to go somewhere else.

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Ino was now with her father and Shizune and were going to give some information about Pain. They found Ibiki and told him the information. Suddenly, they were attacked by a huge rhino. The place where they were was destroyed and they were now on the outside.

Ibiki told them that he was going to fight them and so they left him with his subordinates.

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When they were running, they were suddenly attacked by a strange dog. It was huge and it had tree heads. They barely managed to dodge in time. But it didn't stop there, it kept attacking them non-stop. They retaliated but it didn't work because it kept dividing itself with each attack.

Now there were four dogs and four ninjas. Each dog was separating the four ninjas more and more.

Ino was cornered by the dog that was following her. She was between the wall and the dog. The dog swung his foot horizontally striking for her head, but she managed to duck in time and not receive the blow. But because of that the building she was giving her back started to crumble and the stone (or whatever the buildings are made of, like block or brick, etc.) was going to fall all over her and on top of that the dog directed a bite towards her, it was going to finish her off.

Ino's father just saw helplessly as he couldn't do anything to help her since he was already against a dog too. "INOOO!"…He screamed at the top of his lungs.

Ino stood there not knowing what to do; she was scared and couldn't help but think that this was her end. She started remembering all the good time she had with her friends and then she remembered Zoro too, she was sad she wasn't able to spend more time with him and get to know him better. She waited patiently for her end and closed her eyes. She had some tears forming inside her eyes. But the thing is she didn't feel any pain coming from her body, she thought the dog was going to bite her with his big teeth, but the only thing she heard was a 'puff' and she could feel that strong arms were holding her body from falling, she somehow felt safe.

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With Zoro:

Zoro was running, looking for another enemy he could fight, someone strong he hoped, when suddenly he say a big dog, he remembered there for a second about the dog he saw in Skypea, only thing is that this dog had purple eyes and tubes like the huge centipede and the man he fought moments ago.

Zoro decided o get rid of that dog so he went running towards it. When he was close, he could see some ninjas fighting it but the more they attacked, the more it divided.

"Hmmm, interesting, maybe if I use haki I'll be able to cut him without making it disappear, or at least I hope so"…Zoro thought while closing in.

When he was a few streets away, he could see that the dogs had separated the group and that they were really outmatched. He then saw how Ino was about to get killed by the dog she was fighting so he ran even faster.

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Ino was holding from the neck unto the man that was holding her. She was really happy that someone saved her so she opened her eyes; she at first couldn't see quit well because of the tears she had but after a moment she could see it was Zoro.

"Zoro"…She said in a barely audible voice, she was too surprised.

Ino was looking directly to his eyes and Zoro too. They stared at each other for a long time. Ino was lost in his gaze and Zoro just couldn't stop looking at her beautiful green-bluish eyes. Both were just looking at each other without thinking of anything, just staring. After for what felt like an eternity Zoro snapped back to reality hearing the shouts from Ino's father. He started to let go of her but she didn't let go.

"Ummm…you can let go now"…Zoro said a bit reddened because he stared at her for a long time.

Ino snapped back too from her trance and let go of him quickly. "Ah, sorry…it's just that…I don't know…"but anyways, thank you"…Ino said blushing.

"Y-yea, no problem"…Zoro said blushing more and turned to look to wherever except that cute face of Ino blushing.

Zoro then looked to see that the other three ninjas were having a really tough time getting away from the dogs. "Wait, I'm going to help them"…Zoro said and went towards the closest dog.

"Nitoryu…72 POUND CANNON!"…Zoro exclaimed and a slash of air went towards the dog. When the slash hit the dog it growled in pain and blood came out from the wound, after a second it disappeared in a 'puff'. He did the same on all three dogs left causing the same reaction from each dog.

When they were all safe and sound, they gathered up and interrogated Zoro.

"But how did you make them disappear? I mean we attacked them and they just kept multiplying"…Shizune asked.

"Ah, well…there's something called haki, armament haki, to be precisely"…Zoro said scratching the back of his head.

"Haki, what's that?"…Asked Inoichi.

"Well, it's something like an invisible armor that's used to lessen damage inflicted to you with a hit or something, but it can be used to attack too. The thing is that it can help you damage things that can't be damaged with normal attacks…or something like that"…Zoro said kind of annoyed because he had to answer their questions and weren't that short to answer.

"Hmmm, interesting"…The masked ninja mused. "But, thanks anyway for saving us".

"Ay tea, he's right. Thanks"…Inoichi said.

"Thanks"…Shizune said too.

"Sure, no problem"…Zoro said kind of uncomfortable.

After that Zoro decided to run somewhere else to see if he finds any more enemies.

"Well, I'll be going now"…Zoro said and turned to leave.

"Yea, take care"…Inoichi said.

And with that they parted ways. But before it was too late Ino went with Zoro.

"Hey, where are you going?"…Asked Inoichi.

"I'm going to tell him something, it'll be fast!"…Ino said.

Zoro was about to run off when he heard Ino coming his way. "What's wrong, why are you here?"…Zoro asked her when she was close enough to hear him without shouting.

"I-I just wanted to say thanks again for saving us…and tell you that those guys that have the black cloak are dead people"…Ino said.

"Dead then how are they moving and have these strange powers?"…Zoro asked he already had the grasp of what they were but didn't know how very detailed.

"Well. You see that they have these stick-like things all over their body"…Ino said while Zoro just nodded. "Those are chakra receivers with which they are able to move thanks to someone who isn't here but he or she transmits chakra so that they fight for him…to explain more summarized, it has something to do with their eyes, you see, in this world there are three types of special eyes which give you powers, stranger than the normal ones"…Ino resumed.

"So that's why even the huge animals have those weird looking purple eyes huh?"…Zoro mused.

"Yea, well now I have to go, see you later and take care please"…Ino said.

"Sure thi…"…Zoro was about to reply but was taken by surprise because Ino gave him a quick peck on the cheek. After that he just remained silent ad watched her go without noticing the blush she had after giving him the quick peck. Zoro just remained frozen for a couple of minutes, after that he snapped back to reality and shook his head. "Damn it! That woman is going to distract me; I can't let myself be weakened by her charms!"…Zoro thought while running in a random direction.

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After Ino caught up to the rest she tried the most she could to suppress the blush she had.

"So, Ino, what did you tell him?"…Inoichi asked her with a hint of suspicious in his voice.

"Oh! I just told him about the Pain's, you know just so he would be prepared"…Ino said trying to shake off any suspicions out of her father.

"Hmmm, very well then"…Inoichi said with a grin on his face, believing her.

"Phew…that sure was close"…Ino thought.

Shizune elbowed her softly and Ino looked turned to look at her to see what she wanted. Shizune just gave her an all-knowing smile.

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With Tsunade:

"Well, go now Katsuyu"…Tsunade ordered her.

"Right away, Tsunade-sama"…Katsuyu replied.

And with that Katsuyu went to heal all the ninjas that were injured in the battle until now. She made more clones to make things easier.

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With Zoro:

Zoro meanwhile was fighting more huge animals that he got to cross roads and sometimes helping some people by killing those animals (not like he did it to help them, it was mere coincidence or that was what he wanted to believe).

He then felt the same thing when he was first brought here, like if another vortex was going to come. He hoped it wasn't going to take him back already because he still wanted to fight some other strong guys, and subconsciously, not that he would admit it, but help these people because they had bought some food when he was hungry. He was a man of honor and was going to keep his word about repaying Ino. He wouldn't break his word.

But then felt another presence coming from the sky. "So someone else was brought too huh"…Zoro thought.

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The sky was turning blacker with each minute passed. It looked like there was going to be a storm, but it had something that was different than any normal storm. A huge vortex was forming in the sky.

Almost everyone looked up at the sky to see what was happening. Even some Pains. When it got even darker finally from the vortex some things began to fall.

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With some random ninjas:

"Hey what the hell is that?"…One asked looking at the sky.

"The same thing you know I know"…The other one responded looking at the sky too.

Then a body seemed to be falling from the sky and not the same trees and plants and the usual stuff that was falling at first. It seemed it was covered of sand or something.

"You see that?"…One asked the other.

"Well I'm not blind for your information"…The other one answered in a matter of fact-like way.

When the body finally fell they approached the place and they couldn't see very well (due to the dust) until it finally settled. The man had a scar on his face and didn't have one hand.

A/N: So here's chapter 7. Hope you like it. Oh and if there's something wrong like grammar or any OOCness please tell me. Before I forget, thanks for all the reviews and for reading, I really appreciate all the reviews they give me more inspiration o continue.