Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, to the final chapter of the fear that is Naruto: The Horror Chronicles. This is another story recommended by my good friend stealth8604. I won't go into who is again, since I've already told you. This will be the only story that has another character from a previous story in it, but it's only Shikamaru in a supporting role. There will be few reference to the story he was previously in, but I will make a couple small ones. The big thing you need to know is, this one's all about Kakuzu vs Kakashi. Kakuzu is a serial killer who kills people and steals their hearts and Kakashi is a detective who catches him. However, this leads to Kakuzu nearly dying in a shootout. However, he knew long in advance that he was at risk of dying, so he set up a special way to revenge on all who wronged him. Sit back, and see who lives and who dies! I'm off to enjoy my day as the Joker

Lorne Malvo: We could do it that way. You ask me for my papers... I tell you "it's not my car, that I borrowed it"... see where thing go from there. We could do that. Or you could go get in your car and drive away.

Gus Grimly: Now why would I do that?

Lorne Malvo: Cause some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, "There be dragons here." Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo and Colin Hanks as Gus Grimly (Fargo-2014)


It had taken six months, six motherfucking months, but he'd done it. Kakashi had finally pinned down the The Heartless Thief. The Heartless Thief was one of the most legendary serial killers in the history of Konoha, and Kakashi Hatake was the lead detective on the case. Hatake was a 45 year old man who'd been a detective for the past 20 years. He had gray hair, one eye, and wore a thin mask to cover the damage done to his face from the explosion he'd been in years ago. Actually, it was the same explosion that had killed his father, an explosion that had been caused by one of the criminals his father had put away. Since his father had been detective, that's what Kakashi became in his honor. After a year on the force, Kakashi found the man who killed his father and put him away for good. That was all it took for Kakashi to start climbing the ladder of the Konoha police department.

For the past year however, Kakashi hadn't felt like much of a detective. For the past year, the vicious killer who the media had dubbed The Heartless Thief had murdered 24 people. He was so named because each of the victims had their hearts ripped out post-mortem and bunch of reporters made a joke he must be stealing them because he didn't have one of his own. The man had to be an absolute genius, as he'd left no evidence in the first 12 murders. Luckily though, if you could even call something that involved murder lucky, after six months and his 13th murder, he finally made a mistake. His 13th victim had fought back and left one piece of evidence behind that Kakashi had been able to go off from.

It was small section of mask that had been torn off during the victim's struggle. The mask would've been normal to just about any other person, but Kakashi knew a little better than that. Having worn the same type of mask, Kakashi knew that the thin, breathable, yet durable material this mask was made of could only be found in one place. The Happy Mask Shop was owned by a man named Majora who made the finest masks Kakashi had ever seen. Majora called the type of mask he made for Kakashi, the Shadow Mask, and he said that only one other person had ever asked for it. A man just a little bit older than Kakahsi with black hair wore those masks as well, and he went by the name of Kakuzu.

Kakuzu was a man who'd had a lot of good luck in his life, but all of it came from something that was bad luck. His parents had died in a fire, but he inherited millions from their life insurance. In high school, his high school sweetheart crushed him, but at least that lead him to his wife. After that his wife had died during labor, but not before she gave birth to their son. Their son had died because he had a bad heart...but not before giving Kakuzu a cause to live for.

After his son's death, Kakuzu went completely and totally crazy. According to the doctors, there wasn't nearly enough hearts to go to everyone who needed one, and that was one organ that you couldn't live without, and his son had been too far down on the list to get one. No matter how much money Kakuzu offered, it was never enough to keep his soon alive. He soon began to murder people and rip out their hearts as some kind of revenge.

Kakashi didn't find out all of this until later, but he was able to figure some of it out on his own. It wasn't until digging deeper that he pieced all of it together. The mask hadn't been enough to convict Kakuzu though, so Kakashi had to keep trying and trying to find something that would get the bastard. 11 more people died, and he felt like it was his fault the victims kept piling up the whole time. After a lot of hard work, Kakashi now finally had enough to convict him with. When it was all said and done, Kakashi was gonna have this guy by the balls!


The Konoha police department had the place surrounded, with Kakashi leading the charge. It was a small warehouse that Kakuzu owned and it was where he was hiding at the moment. Kakashi had a feeling that Kakuzu had no idea what was coming for him, if he was actually staying in there and not trying to run. That's what Kakashi figured anyways.

In total there were 3 snipers on the roof, 5 gunmen outside, and then Kakashi himself at the front door. He raised his hand up and knocked on the door, "Kakuzu, this is the police! We're going to ask you to come out here with your hands up!"

Kakuzu's deep rumbling voice called back, "Is this Kakashi Hatake that I'm talking to?"

"You know who it is you son of a bitch!" Kakashi yelled back.

Kakuzu still didn't open the door, but said, "I've got one question to ask you before I come out there."

Kakashi didn't actually care, but played along anyways. He wanted this guy finished, "Fine, what do you want to know?"

Kakuzu had a rather simple question, "Do you remember what I told you the very first day we met? Back when you called me in for questioning six months ago?"

Kakashi had to admit, that was the last thing he expect Kakuzu to ask, "Well yes, I do."

Kakuzu was heard chuckling inside, "And what did I say?"

Kakashi's mind slowly started to drift back to the day, hoping he'd be able to remember everything that had been said word for word. He had a feeling that this very important to Kakuzu.

Flashback

Six months prior, when Kakashi and Kakuzu had first started facing off against one another, Kakashi had brought Kakuzu in to question him about the mask. It was gonna be difficult since Kakuzu was a very smart man who wasn't going to give up information that could get to him into trouble. Kakashi was going to have to be very careful about what he said.

He sat across the table from Kakuzu, carefully mulling over what to say, "So sir, your name is Kakuzu?"

"You know my name," The man said shortly, "You wouldn't have called me in here if you didn't."

Kakashi was already off to a bad start, "Fair enough. So do you know why I've called you in here then?"

Kakuzu looked him over and then said, "The same you've been calling people in for the past month I'm guess, The Heartless Thief thing."

Kakashi loved how he phrased in just the right way to avoid suspension, "That would be the reason, yes. You see, something that belongs to you managed to end up at the most recent crime scene. Basically, the kind of mask that you're wearing, or piece of one anyways. In fact, you and I are the only two people in Konoha who wear it, according our mutual friend Majora, and I have an alibi. You understand how this makes you look, don't you?"

Kakuzu looked at him and honestly laugh, "Oh come on, a piece of a mask? That's all you've got. That and a dollar might get you a cup of coffee."

Kakashi was expecting more of a reaction, "So are you saying you didn't do it."

Kakuzu didn't seem to be the least bit phased, "I'm not gonna say another damn thing until you get me my lawyer."

Kakashi got up to leave, but he said before he did, "You know an innocent man wouldn't need a lawyer."

Kakuzu looked at Kakashi and said, "I don't need a lawyer, I just want to be careful. I'm a very careful person, and that makes me very tough to beat."

Kakashi looked Kakuzu in the eye, "Are you saying you and I are going to fight?"

Kakuzu chuckled very darkly, "I'm saying that people who do fight me lose. I'm saying that there are some battles that you should really just back away from. Do you know what I mean Mr. Hatake?"

"No, I don't," Kakashi said and slammed the door.

Flashback End

Kakashi relayed the basics of it back and asked, "So what about it?"

"I told you Kakashi, people who fight me lose, even if that means both of us have to lose," Kakuzu told him in a very cryptic voice, "It's not too late for you to turn around you know."

Kakashi wasn't backing off, "Fuck you. You've got 24 bodies on your head, so I'm not just gonna let you walk!"

Kakuzu figured as much, "From you, I'd expect no less. Please come in, the door's unlocked."

Kakashi beat on the door, "No, you come out here! I'm not an idiot Kakuzu, you could just gun me down the moment I walked in there. The deal is, you come out here with you hands up and we take you in. Don't make this harder than it has to be."

There was silence for a while and then Kakashi heard a click inside Kakuzu's place. Kakashi jumped out of the way of the door and yelled to the others in his walky-talky, "The suspect is armed! Repeat, the suspect is armed!"

Kakuzu yelled back out, "Calm yourself Kakashi, I was merely unlocking the door. Honestly, you're far too jumpy right now."

He opened the door and walked out with his hands up, just as Kakashi had asked him to. Slowly at first, then he picked up the pace a little bit. Kakashi grabbed him and put the handcuffs on him, "You're finally mine you damn psycho. You killed 24 people, but I've fucking got you."

"25," Kakuzu mumbled.

Kakashi blinked a couple of times and said, "What? What do you mean 25?"

Kakuzu was grinning under his mask, "I killed 25 people Kakashi, not 24. You know it's funny, the Konoha police department uses the same snipers for every single issue. If you just know how to get to one of them…"

Kakashi suddenly yanked the cuts up, hurting Kakuzu's wrists a quite a bit, "You rat bastard! What did you do?"

"Put me on that radio and I'll tell you," Kakuzu offered.

Kakashi knew better than to do that, "Yeah, like that'll happen."

A voice came over the radio, "Is something wrong Kakashi? Why aren't you putting him in the car?"

Kakashi pushed the button to say something back, but Kakuzu spoke before he could, "Metuka Fucoda!"

Kakashi knew that was the name of Oruca Fucoda's, one of the snipers, wife. Oruca came over the radio, "Kakashi, how does he know my wife's name? Dammit Kakashi, ask him or I'll just shoot you both!"

Kakashi didn't know if Oruca was serious, but he didn't want to find out, "I'm gonna ask you this again Kakuzu, what the hell did you do? How do you know Metuka's name?"

"Oh, we spent a little bit of time together. I guess you could say that I...captured her heart! Hahaha!" Kakuzu told him with an evil laugh added afterwards.

Kakashi cringed as Oruca's voice came over the radio again, "What did he say? Is Metuka okay? For the love of god Kakashi, tell me Metuka's okay!"

Kakashi couldn't bring himself to say anything. He just grabbed Kakuzu and tried to move him towards his car. Oruca kept yelling so Kakashi said in the radio, "Oruca, just shut up right now! We don't for sure what he's done! He's playing so don't fucking buy into it."

Before Kakashi could take his button of the radio, Kakuzu yelled, "I killed your wife! She begged for you to save her the whole time!"

Kakashi didn't get a chance to say anything after that. He felt something hit him in the gut and fell backwards, seeing that Kakuzu had been shot a in a spot that was just a little higher as he did. If Ocura had his head in the game he most likely would've kill Kakuzu in just one shot. However, he was too focused on his wife to do that.

As Kakashi laid there bleeding out, he started to wonder if this had been Kakuzu's big final move. It seemed so simple, so basic for something Kakuzu would do. Kakashi had a feeling that his had only just begun.


Asuma Sarutobi was not happy right now. One of his brothers in blue had gone rogue and shot somebody because Kakuzu had killed his wife, Kakashi had gotten shot too, and he'd forced his partner Shikamaru to watch Kakashi until he got there. It was all fucking insane and Asuma didn't know what to do about any of it.

He was making his way through the hospital, asking questions to a young officer that was next to him, "For fuck's sake, what the hell happened out there? How could capturing one guy go so wrong?"

The younger officer didn't know. He just nervously said back, "I don't know sir, shit just kind of hit the fan. The doctors have been looking after the two who got shot for the past hour and it looks like Kakuzu's gonna be paralyzed for the rest of his life."

Asuma rolled his eyes, "Oh great, now he's gonna sue the fucking city or something like that. At least that means he's not going anywhere."

Asuma was going to regret that statement. The younger officer was leading him to Kakuzu's room to get a look at him. He got the door and said, "He's in here sir, I don't know if he'll talk much though."

Asuma thought differently, "He'll talk alright. One way or another I'll make him talk about how he's pulled all of this off."

He threw the door open and saw the only thing that could've shocked him more than actually seeing Kakuzu. Kakuzu wasn't there at all. It was just an empty bed, "Where is he? you said this guy was paralyzed!"

The officer didn't know, "I'm just as lost as you are sir. No one saw him leave or anything!"

Asuma turned around and asked, "You said before that Kakashi's in the room acrossed from him, right?"

The officer nodded and walked over, "Yeah, but I don't think he'll be gone too. I mean there's just no way…"

He opened the door to see that neither Kakashi nor Shikamaru was anywhere to be seen. Asuma was starting to get worried, "Who let these guys out? I know it's not Shikamaru, he's not that stupid. What's going on here?"

The younger officer didn't know, but one thing did stick out to him, "It almost seems like that Kakuzu guy planned this whole, you know? I mean, he made them get shot, did in a way so that both of them could go to the same hospital, and then both of them vanished."

Asuma was starting to think the kid was right, "What you're saying could be true...Kakuzu you sick little freak, what are planning?"


Kakashi's eyes slowly started to flutter open as looked around the room he was in. It was dark and damp, almost like a basement, and was nothing but wall to wall cement with a door. He saw that Shikamaru was in their as well, out like a light, along with four other knocked out people. He didn't recognize any of the others and he had no idea how he got here. The gunshot wound to his stomach was all bounded up and fixed so that it wouldn't bleed anymore.

Before long he started to look at the other people in there to see if he could learn anything about them. One was a woman with a slim build, short brown hair, a necklace with a blue charm on it, and two large hoop earrings. She was rather pretty, and was wearing a red T-shirt with jeans.

Another was a bulky man with a thin beard and a bandana on his head. He had wife beater on as well. Next to him was a thin man with long gray hair who was wearing nothing but a torn up pair of pants, tattoos covered his chest. The last person in there was a woman who was dressing rather trashily. She had on a ton of makeup and was wearing the sluttiest clothing Kakashi had ever seen, but it was made to look kind of elegant. The girl had red hair and a glasses as well.

Kakashi kept looking at all of them as Shikamaru started to wake up, "Oh my fucking head. Son of bitch man, that motherfucker hit me hard."

Kakashi was glad that Shikamaru was awake to explain all of this shit to him, "Oh thank god, you're up. You mind telling me what in the hell is going on here?"

Shikamaru rubbed his head, "Somebody dressed as a doctor came into your room and knocked me out while you were sleeping. That's really all I know. As far as how they got us here, I don't have any idea."

"Hey, where the fuck am I? Who the fuck are you guys? What the fuck is going here?" The gray haired man swore, finally waking up.

Kakashi turned towards the man, "I'm Detective Kakashi Hatake and this Detective Shikamaru Nara. We're not really sure why we're here or where we actually are. Who are you?"

"Hidan, that's my damn name," The man said in an angry voice, "Who are the rest of these fucks?"

The one with the bandana sat up, "I'm Kitsuchi, and I've already heard who all of you guys are. Should we try and wake the other two up?"

The one with red hair got up, "No need. My name is Karin by the way."

The last girl woke up as well, "Man, you guys are loud. The name's Eclair. Do all of you really have no clue what we're here for?"

All of them looked around and just shook their heads. Only Shikamaru and Kakashi knew each other, so there was nothing for them go off from. They were lost as to why and how they were here.

A deep voice came over an intercom that was in the corner of the room, "Good evening everyone. Are you ready for a little test? I can see that you're all curious as to why I have brought you here."

All of them recognized the voice, "Wait a minute, is that?"

"Before you ask, yes, this is your old friend Kakuzu aka, The Heartless Thief," The voice confirmed, "I think you've all just found that thing that links you guys together. You all are in some way related to me."

Eclair had a great bit of fear in her eyes, "Kakuzu? Is that really you?"

Kakuzu came over the intercom again, "Yes, it's me my old sweetheart. How've you been?"

Eclair didn't respond. It was Kitsuchi who spoke next, "Wait, how do all of us know you?"

Kakuzu was happy to explain that, "Oh that's really quite simple. Kitsuchi, you were a one of the biggest dicks I ever had to deal with in highschool and you now beat your own fucking wife. Eclair, I gave my heart to you in highschool and you stomped on it before you went off to college and it took me years to get over you. Karin, you just went and stole something from me, not very smart. Hidan, my old partner in crime, you fucked me over in a big way just about 6 months ago. And finally, Kakashi Hatake, you were the one who put a stop to my mission of pulling the hearts out of every asshole in Konoha. You've all sinned against me, and now you're going to pay. Expect for you Mr. Nara, you're free to go."

Shikamaru didn't understand, "What do you mean I'm free to go?"

"I never meant for my man to take you. You're kidnapping was an accident," Kakuzu told him, "I've got a path to lead you down so that you may leave. Unlike the rest of them, I didn't infect you."

Karin suddenly got afraid, "Infect us? Infect us with what?"

Kakuzu chuckled, "A little drug that I had a friend of mine get. It'll kill you within half an hour. Once that time is up, your hearts will explode, as that was as close as I could get to ripping them out. I'm soon going to unlock the door that is in front of you, and then you're going to find that past it are six other doors. One of them will lead Shikamaru out of here, the other five will have your names on them. Only one of you will get the cure for what I've infected you with. To get it, you'll have to pass through a special room that I've made to test each of you. The first one through their room get's the cure and may have an audience with me to ask all of the questions they wish. You'll find out why and how I've done all of this, just like you wanted. Remember, half an hour or you all die. Have fun!"

The voice turned off and Karin, Hidan, and Kitsuchi suddenly ran for the door to start the race. Kakashi stayed behind to to talk to Shikamaru, "I know you're probably gonna wanna stay and help me, but you need to get out of here. You've got a wife and a baby on the way. Don't worry about me for now, you just get going. Tell the others where we are once you get back home, okay?"

Shikamaru wasn't gonna argue, "Fine, but be careful. Something tells me those tests aren't gonna be easy."

Shikamaru ran through the door as well and Kakashi turned to Eclair, "Aren't you gonna go and try for the test like the others?"

Eclair thought for a second then sighed, "I don't know. You seem like a good guy...I don't think I deserve to live instead of you. The others maybe, but not you. You need to stop Kakuzu."

Kakashi didn't feel like that at all, "At least go and try your test. I might fail mine and then you'll need to stop Kakuzu instead of me."

Eclair hadn't thought of that, "Good point. If we both pass through, you take the cure."

Kakashi didn't understand why this girl he'd never met was willing to die for him, "You're oddly worried about my well being, you know that?"

Eclair didn't say anything. She just slowly walked towards that door and eventually asked in a quiet voice, "Is it true...about Kakuzu being the heartless thief?"

There was no doubt in Kakashi's mind, "Oh yeah, that son of bitch killed them all."

"Well if that's true, then everything that he did is my fault. I can't tell you why for now, but maybe if both of us make it I will," Eclair said, and opened the door to leave the room.

Kakashi wanted to ask her more, but she left before he could. He didn't know what, but Kakashi found something about this girl very intriguing. It was almost like he was drawn to her in some way. However, he had to go and make an attempt to beat his room. A big part of him was wondering what kind of horrors the others were facing in their rooms. While he knew he couldn't be anything good, he just hoped it wasn't too bad.


Kitsuchi had indeed been a bully during his time on earth. It was trait he'd picked up from his father, a man who would beat him and put cigarettes out on his neck. A horrid man to be sure, but that didn't excuse some of the things that Kitsuchi had done in his life. He'd beaten his classmates, mainly the small and weaker ones like Kakuzu, up in school to make him feel better about himself, he'd beaten his wife to keep control over her, and he beat his son, just because he could. Just like his father before him, Kitsuchi had become an abuser. Kakuzu had every intention of making him pay for that, with the most fitting punishment he could possibly think of for the man.

When Kitsuchi entered the room, he found that there were three desks inside of it. One desk had some kind of bunsen burner on it, another had a large clamp on it that someone could easily break their arm with. The last one had a huge knife on it and glass measuring cup. There was a strange buzzing coming from the ceiling as well. Kitsuchi looked it all over, "What in the hell is all this for?"

Kakuzu's voice came over the intercom once again, "Hello Kitsuchi, I'm so glad you could make it. First things first, don't bother trying to talk to this intercom, this is a mere recording. It's going to tell you what you have to do if you want to leave this room. What you see on each of theses desks represent some of the things you've done to your friends and families over the years. The table with the knife is the blood you've taken for them, the one with the clamp is the bones you've broken, and the bunsen burner represents the those you've burned yourself. You must break at least one arm, fill that glass about half way full with your blood, just enough so that you'd be able to live, and burn around 40 percent of your arms. Once you do that, you're free to go. You may have noticed the buzzing above your head. That would be the sound of electrical wires that I've cut in half and conduct electricity though. If you take more stay still for more than five minutes, the wires will fall and electrocute you, speeding up the chemical in your blood and popping your heart. Your five minutes begins now. Good luck."

Kitsuchi just kind of stood dumbfounded for a few seconds. Kakuzu actually wanted him to to all of this stuff to himself? Finally, after remembering that he had work to do, Kitsuchi ran towards one of the tables to get start. It was amazing and disturbing what humans are willing to do to survive, even to the point of bring pain on themselves.

He tried to use his head to decided what to do first. Kitsuchi knew he didn't want to try and break his arm if it has all cut up or burned, so as much as it sounded horrible, he was going to break his arm first. So he put his arm under the clamp and slowly started to lower, twisting the handle on the side of it to do so. It eventually reached his arm and started to press down on it. At first he felt no pain, but the cold, metallic clamp began to put more and more pressure on him arm. No matter how much he seemed to press down though, his arm just wouldn't break. Every time he thought that it was gonna snap, it just kept staying. The whole thing was both a psychological and physical hell.

Finally, after clamp was pretty much touching the table, his arm made a loud snap and Kitsuchi felt a sharp pain shoot up and down his arm. He screamed at the pain, "AHHHHH! FUCK ME!"

For about a minute, Kitsuchi just laid on the ground and held on to his arm for dear life. Was this how his son had felt when he broke his arm for the first time? It didn't matter for now, he had more things to do.

Kitsuchi forced himself to the next table, the one with bunsen burner. He saw that there was some lighter fluid on the desk as well, which Kitsuchi realized could be used to help him. If he put that on his arms, he could just light all of it at once and be done with it.

He poured the lighter fluid all over his arm and, with a lot of hesitation, lit the bunsen burned and threw his arms over it. What followed was easily the greatest amount of pain that Kitsuchi had ever felt. It was nothing but raw, searing, burning pain! Kitsuchi looked around to try and find some way to put the fire out. Eventually he just laid down and started rolling on the ground, hoping that would do it. It worked, but not fast enough for Kitsuchi's liking.

As he looked down at his arms, Kitsuchi was starting to feel like he might not have made the right choice going in the order he did. There was almost no way that he could hold a knife with his arms like this, but he was going to have to try. He got himself to the last table and looked down at the knife and the cup.

One of his arms was broken and he could hardly even lift it, so he knew that he wasn't going to be picking it up with that one. He lifted his other mangle arm up and tired to lift the knife, but his burned hand dropped the knife because it hurt to much to hold it. After a couple seconds more of pain, he tried to pick it up again, this time ignoring the pain. Finally, he forced himself to make a cut on his other arm and then quickly move the cup to try and fill it. Thanks to the previously mentioned pain, he was couldn't bring himself to make a very big cut and so he didn't get much blood. There was no way he'd get it half full at this rate.

With all of this on his mind, Kitsuchi didn't even notice the cup slipping out of his hand. Before he could stop it, the cup fell and shattered into a million tiny pieces before his eyes, "NOOOOOOOO!"

He looked at the intercom and yelled, "Please Kakuzu, don't kill me! It wasn't my fault, the cup just slipped. If you give me another I'll do it, I swear that I will! Please, don't do this!"

Kakuzu didn't come over the intercom at all, much to Kitsuchi's fear. He heard the ceiling start to retract and waited for the wires to bring him his death. However, they never did. Instead, a cup fell from the ceiling and Kitsuchi was barely able to catch it with his good arm.

He yelled at the ceiling, "Thank you! Oh sweet jesus thank you!"

Kitsuchi grabbed the knife again and this time didn't worry much about his own safety. He just took the knife and dug it into his arm as deeply as he could, then positioned the cup so that it was in the right spot to catch the blood. Although it was only just barely worked, the cup filled up about half way. The door could be heard unlocking and Kitsuchi sighed in relief.

He sprinted at the door and ran the hell out of there, praying he'd never have to enter again.


Karin had spent just everyday of her life after getting out of high school trying to screw over some poor sap. When Karin had left high school, she was a tall glass of water. Nicely sized breasts, a heart shaped buttox, long red hair, and a tounge that could bring any man to his knees, thanks to it's skill.

For the first year out of school, she just seduced young attractive men and had them pay her way. When they stopped being willing to pay, she'd rob them blind and then drop their asses. For the next year, since she'd grown tired of seducing men, she started to become an actress. After sleeping her way to the middle for a couple of years where she did a couple tv shows and a movie, her career started to go downhill, so she went back to seducing men again. It was even easier now, as her past a B-list celebrity made her desirable to all kinds of different men. All she had to do was put on some slutty make-up and where a low top, and then ride the gravy train until they stopped paying. Her most recent target had been a man who worked for Kakuzu and he was buying her whatever. The woman was a fucking hellcat in bed.

When he'd taken her to Kakuzu's house and she saw how fucking rich the guy was, she decided to make her big move. Karin stole just about everything she could get her hands out and booked it the hell out there. She'd made a killing of his possession, so at the time she thought it was a great plan. Looking back, that was terrible idea.

Now he was stuck in the clutches of some madman, with no idea as to what in the hell to do. She looked around the room and found that there was a table inside. It had various substance on it, most of which Karin couldn't identify.

After a few brief moments, Kakuzu's voice came on over the intercom, "Well if it isn't the little thief who stole all of my precious things. This is Kakuzu talking to you of course, via a prerecorded message. Now there's something I want you to understand before I begin. I usually don't it this seriously when someone steals something from me. You see, there was an object among the things that you stole, the last possession I had of my wife and son. It was a card that she'd helped him make when he was 4. While it wasn't very good, I loved it because of what it meant to them. The adorable little thing was inside a solid gold frame, so thats why you took it. Knowing that you probably threw the card away just about drove me mad. Well, more mad than I already was anyways."

Karin was starting quickly starting to realize the situation she was in as Kakuzu continued, "I looked into who you were and what you did. Now I must say Karin, it appears that you're nothing more than very high priced, long term hooker. You slept with men for material gain, simple as that. The only thing that you don't do that a hooker does is take drugs. Which is what those substances on the table are for. Each one is a different type of drug. They can all be snorted, I made it easy for you, and there's five of them in total. What you need to do is take four of the five drugs. You can pick them, but I must warn, some of them have very powerful effects when compained. I'm sure a prostitute such as yourself will have no problem figuring out which ones do what though. If you can take four of them and not pass out, you may leave at get the cure. Good luck, and have fun."

Karin wish desperately that she could ask him a question, but he'd said that the message was prerecorded. All she could do was look at the contents of the table and try to figure out what they were. Problem was though, she'd never done drugs a day in her life. She found the practice disgusting and unnecessary, something that only fools would do. However, Kakuzu had declared her a prostitute, an accusation that she strongly resented, and prostitutes were supposed to do that stuff. While Karin felt that wasn't entirely true, she wanted to hurry up and get this over with as well.

She found that there was a straw on the table and she'd enough movies to know what it was for. Karin check each of the drugs carefully, trying to decided what one not to take. Most of them looked like pure substances that were made into a powder, but one of them had other things in it. It had some little chunks and things in them and over all it just din't look right to her. In the end, she pushed that one aside and decided to try the other drugs on the table.

The first one was a white powder that was cocain if she had to guess. She put the straw by the powder and sucked up into her nose. The feeling that came over her when she did it was indescribable. It had her shaking like a madwoman, but she eventually got control of herself and moved on to the next drug.

The next one was something that looked like a bunch of tiny blue crystally things. Karin wasn't even gonna try to figure out what it was, she just brought the straw down and sucked it up into her nose. This one gave her more of a jolt than the white powder had, but it didn't make her feel too much shakier.

After that, she went to some kind of red powder that she, once again, couldn't identify. It didn't matter, she just snorted it up like before. Her nose was so raw from from the other drugs that she didn't even notice it at this point, except for the slightly added zing she got.

Very last was a weird purplish kind of stuff that Karin just kind of looked at for a couple of second. Her legs were so shaky and her whole body felt numb. It took all of her focus to to get the straw where she needed it to suck up the strange stuff, but she eventually did it. For a few seconds she didn't notice anything. In fact, she almost felt fine.

However, all of a sudden a sharp pain came on her chest. What Karin didn't know is that by using both the red and purple drugs, she ampt up the cocaine that she'd taken to about a hundred. It made her heart race and before long, the thing exploded just like a balloon. The drugs must have had some kind of reaction to the other drug that Kakuzu had placed in her system.

Karin, the unofficial hooker, had made the big bet and lost. Her body was done for once and for all, it was of no more use to the men she'd seduced before. She'd always been afraid that something she put in her body would kill her, she just never thought that it would be drugs. It was cruel type of irony to be sure.


Hidan was on a whole other level of pissed right now. Kakuzu, that cocksucker, had locked him up in what looked like some sick fuck's basement and knew he was going to be put through some kind of bullshit test. Test? What the fuck was this, elementary school? He hadn't even done anything that bad to Kakuzu, not in the long run anyways.

Hidan only had one thing that he gave a shit about, and that was making sure that his bloodlust got fed. He loved to kill things, mainly getting to watch them bleed out and watching the life leave their eyes. So when Kakuzu came to him and asked him for a little bit of help with a little bit of murder, he was happy to do it. All that Kauzu had asked was the he got to rip the heart out when Hidan was all done. This had gone well the first few times and Hidan actually had a lot of fun with it. Much like things do however, it began to unravel.

Hidan got tired of knowing that his cuts weren't the last thing done to the body and he was even more tired of having to wait for Kakuzu's say so just to kill someone. So, he decided that he was just gonna go out on his own. He even took a piece of Kakuzu's weird mask and left it at the crime scene so that the man would get caught. Yet, that didn't end up working, at least not until six months later. Look where that dumbass plan got him!

When Hidan walked into his room and started to look around. There was a large hunting knife on the life on in the center of the room and four cages in each corner of the room. Multiple somethings was growling inside of them, but Hidan wasn't sure what they were. He walked into the center of the room and picked up the knife that and took a good look at, "You are a pretty little thing, aren't you? High quality, nice feel, well maintained, the whole nine yards."

Hidan's admiring or the knife was ended when Kakuzu's voice coming over the intercom, "Hello there Hidan, this a prerecorded message from an old friend of yours. To clarify, this is Kakuzu, and we're not exactly friends either. I thought that we were gonna be friends, but you fucked me over in a big way. Thanks to you, Kakashi began to follow me. Now, I'm going to make you pay for that. In each of the four cages around you, there are three rabid dogs. They're a lot like you, creatures that kill just for the sake of killing you know. Well if you want to get out of this room, you'll have to prove you're the best of these horrible creatures. I'm going to realse these dogs. Let's see if you can kill all of them, there's twelve in total. Good luck and do try to have fun."

Hidan's blood ran cold as he heard all of the cages clank open. He went right into his killer mode, getting his knife in killing position. The first of the dogs ran out of his cage, snapping and snarling at Hidan. It jumped and went for a killshot at the man's neck. Having been in life or death fights before, Hidan knew how to keep him calm. Once the dog got close to him, he grabbed it by the neck and diverted it away from him, stabbing the mutt as he did. Not just once, but as many times as he could to make sure that the dog was dead.

However, that landed him in a spot of trouble, as another dog came up behind him and bit his leg. Hidan whirled around and stabbed the dog in the head with one swift motion, being sure to end it in just one shot. Two more dogs ran at him, these ones at the same time. He was gonna have to be careful this time.

One of the dogs he tried to kick away, getting a nice hit on it's stomach which sent it flying into the wall. As he did that, the other dog planned on bitting the gray haired man's face. However, Hidan grabbed the dog's head before he could, his hands were now covered with blood from the others dogs. He was forced to drop the knife, so he'd have to get back later. Right now, his focus was on the foaming mouth that just snapping and snapping at him.

Hidan took a deep breath and used all of his force and finesse to snap the dog's neck. That was three down, eight to go, and it looked like the dog that he'd kicked away was back for revenge. He got his knife picked back up, but not before the dog bit his arm. After throwing it off, Hidan did a short little roll and stabbed the fourth dog in the neck.

He was panting at this point, already starting to get out breath. That wasn't something he got to do long though, because three of the dogs started to attack one of his legs. The plan was to take them out, but another one of the dogs was coming at his head as well. Hidan decided that it was best not to fuck around with that one, so he got right between the eyes with the knife. Once again, Hidan planned to take out the dogs on his leg, which were tearing the flesh from his bone and squirting blood everywhere, but another dog decided to get in on the mix.

More snarling and snapping came at Hidan, who grabbed it by it's snout and pushed it up. This allowed him to slash it's neck with his knife, covering him with dog blood as so much of it began to squirt out. That was when Hidan felt one of the most painful things he'd ever felt in his life. The three dogs on his leg ripped it right off from his body, making Hidan scream in pain, "Oh, you fuckers! You are gonna wish you hadn't done that!"

Hidan's bone as now sticking out of a stub on his leg, all broken and nasty. He rolled himself around, which hurt like hell thanks to his leg, and got the first of the dogs with his knife at the base of it's neck. This caused another one of them to come at him, so Hidan stabbed it three times in the stomach. That was another dead dog right there. The last one turned to snap at him, but Hidan shoved the knife up through it's snout, killing it instantly.

Only three dogs were left now, and they were all coming at him to finish what their friends at started. Hidan raised up his knife and threw it at one of the dogs, the blade landing right in one of it's eye sockets, taking it out with a whimper. The other two dogs were coming, but Hidan had a plan for them. When the first one reached him, he punched it in the face, stunning the dog for a second. After that, he grabbed the other dog and slammed it's head into the ground a couple of times, crushing its skull.

The last dog was back on it's feet and had started to run towards him again. This one Hidan just grabbed and strangled, not having to worry about anything else. In a minutes or two, the dog stopped thrashing and Hidan let it's limp body go.

Hidan had beaten the dogs, but at one hell of a price. He'd lost one of his legs and was bleeding like a motherfucker. However, he had heard the door unlock. With what little strength he had left, Hidan crawled over to the door and opened it. While he'd won his challenge, he had a feeling the worst was yet to come.


Eclair really had broken Kakuzu's heart in high school. When school had first started, Kakuzu had few to no friends. The only person he felt really cared about him was Eclair, a beautiful young girl who had befriended him. She treated him like a human being, cared about him, showed him true human affection. So it had been no surprise to anyone when Kakuzu and Eclair ended up hooking during freshman year and dated all throughout high school, right up until senior year. It was the year that Eclair did something that she thought she did what was best for Kakuzu.

The two of them were went off to college, and Eclair knew that he had started to depend on her heavily. She knew that if Kakuzu kept depending on her like that, it was going to make social life just about impossible for him. Eclair did what she felt she had to do. For Kakuzu's own good, she broke it off.

While it took him months to get over her, he did eventually move on and got married. In the end though, part of him had always resented Eclair for what she did. When he started making her revenge plots, he just had to add her in. It didn't help that she felt guilty now, like the whole Heartless Thief thing was her fault. How was she supposed to live with herself knowing that?

She walked into the room and just about felt like she was gonna be sick. Hearts hung around the room. Dozens of hearts, at least 24, hung from the ceiling, human hearts. Eclair had imagined she'd have to see something so horrible.

Kakuzu's voice came over the intercom, "Well if it isn't my dear sweet Eclair. Hello my old sweetheart, I'm just here to let you know via a pre recorded message that I've thought of a very special test for you. Each of these hearts, that I tore out of their owners chest myself, has something inside of them. Some good, some bad. In one of them where is the key to let you exited this room. You'll have to crush hearts to find out which one it is. You're good at crushing hearts after all. There's a catch however, even more than just the nasty surprises in some of the hearts. For every heart you crush that doesn't have the key, I'll start to take minutes off from a countdown I'm going to start. You have fifteen minutes to find the key, and if you don't find it before then, I'll realse a gas in the room that will kill you. Have fun and I wish you good luck!"

Eclair really did think that she was going to be sick at this point. It was the most disgusting thing she'd ever had to do. Hell, she'd never even thought about doing something this disgusting. Before she started, she looked up at the intercom, "I know that you might not be able to hear me...but I've just gotta say that I'm sorry. What I did, I really did have your best intrest at heart when I did them. Maybe I was wrong, I don't know to be honest. But I am sorry...oh so very sorry."

With that, she reached her hand out and touched the first of the hearts. It was nasty and slimy, blood was still all over it. This had been what kept some poor soul alive before this happened. However, she had to remember that her dying wouldn't bring these people back. Eclair squeezed the first heart and crushed it, quickly feeling something inside. She jerked her hand back immedaily, finding a knife inside of the heart the pierced her hand. Now she couldn't even tell if the blood on her hand was hers or the poor hearts.

She turned to the next heart, knowing that she'd just knocked a minute off from her time. Eclair cringed as she forced herself to reach out and grab it, getting that same gut wrenching feeling as she did. Once again, she crushed the heart, but this one had nothing in it.

There went another of her minutes right there. She kept doing this over and over again, praying she'd find a key. The next one actually had maggots inside of it, ass if the heart had started to rot or something. After that, she got another empty one, and then one that a bullet in it. Eclair didn't know what to make of that one.

Her time was slipping away from her and she knew it. If she'd had to guess, she'd say she had 8 minutes left after all that and 26 hearts left to choose from. It was all luck right now, which wasn't good for someone in a life or death situation. Before she knew what was going on, she felt the need to run to one of the corners of the room and throw up. She must have lost another minute just dealing with that.

She got so angry all of a sudden, that doing what she felt was right could lead to this. Eclair reached out and crushed two of the hearts in anger. One had a blade in it that just cut off one of her fingers, and the other...had a key inside of it.

There was an overwhelming sense of relief at getting the key, so much so that she just ran right to the door and unlocked it. She got luck, very luck in fact. This could've gone a much different direction. It would've been easy for her to die right then and there. Maybe luck was on her side? Maybe she fate wanted them to stop Kakuzu. There were a whole lot of maybes going on right now. Eclair was just going to use this luck while she still had it. Who knew what else was in store for her.


Kakashi felt more than fear in his heart than he ever thought he would as he walked into the room that held his challenge. He'd spent the past year trying to stop Kakuzu, so he knew exactly what the man was capable of. It this guy wanted to make him feel fear and pain, he was more than able to think of the most fucked up way to do it. There was no way he could guess what was coming for him.

He got into the room and saw that there was a window with no glass in it. Kakashi looked through it to see something that stung him to his core. There was a woman at the end of it, tied to a chair with something on her head. Her mouth was gagged and she couldn't say anything.

Kakashi knew she wasn't safe here, so she started to climb over to get her, "Just hold on miss, you'll be fine. I'm gonna get you out of here and back to where you belong."

Kakuzu's voice stopped him before he could go any further, "Hello Mr. Hatake, or detective I suppose would be a better title. This is a pre-recorded Kakuzu here to give the rules of your challenge. The first rule that I have to tell is not to step through the window. If you do, that woman you see will die. You may not have notice this, but there is a collar around her neck. In that collar are blades, that will eject if you fail this challenge or climb through the window. There is a keypad next to your door that only she has the combination to. If you free her, she may simply leave untouched after giving you the combination. There will be a path for her to leave down. All you have to do to make sure she goes free is that target right on her head. You'll find a gun in your room, if you empty the clip before you hit the target, you fail. Simple."

Kakashi looked at target, which he could hit easily from where he was at. Granted, he was a bit nervous about hitting her, but he still felt like he could do it if he just stayed calm. He knew it wouldn't be that easy though, and mumbled, "Okay, but what's the catch?"

Kakuzu's voice soon gave him an answer, "Well, there is one condition. You see, I know that when you lost one of your eyes it had a great effect on your depth perception. Shortly after that, you started to wear contacts to fix the issue. I doubt that would've been able to become a police officer without it. That's not fair as far as I'm concerned. When my life turned upside down, I just had to deal with it. I want you to take those contacts out before you start shooting. Good luck making that shot. Have fun."

Kakashi wanted to collapse on the ground when he heard that he had to try and make this shot without his contacts, or contact, more accurately. The risk to this woman's life just went up a whole hell of a lot! He didn't have much of a choice though. He looked around the room until he saw a table with at gun on it, a small handgun to be exact. Taking a deep breath, Kakashi walked over and grabbed the gun, talking his contact out and getting himself ready for this shot.

He raised up his gun with a definite plan in mind. For his first shot, he was going to fire very high, allowing him to see where his shot would land without risking hitting the woman. Gently squeezing the trigger, Kakashi fired of his first shot, which landed no where near where he was aiming. It was lower than it should've been and more to the left. Kakashi could feel his palm sweating at just how far off he was. The woman in the chair looked horrified as well, with a look like, 'I'm doomed,' on her face.

No matter how bad it was though, he needed to fire again to check where it landed. He adjust his shot based on his past results, hoping he'd improve at least a little. Kakashi fired another fear filled shot above her head, this time a bit closer to where he was aiming, but it was still a little to the left and too low.. It still wasn't close enough for him though, not to take the shot.

He took out the gun's clip to see that he had 4 shots left. That was no where near as many as Kakashi would've liked. Adjusting his shot one again, Kakashi fired off another round, trying to hit above the woman's head. Now this one, this one was just a few inches from where Kakashi had been aiming. A small bit of relief was seen in the woman's eyes and Kakashi was a little relieved as well.

Now that he had a little more confidence, Kakashi considered trying for the shot. However, it just seemed safer to try one more practice round. He raised the gun up, once again making a small adjustment, and fired off one last shot, hitting almost exactly where he was aiming. Thanks to this, and with two shots left, Kakashi felt better than ever about trying this.

He got his shot ready, with a small bit of his nerves still inside of him, and fired off a tension filled shot. Both the woman's and Kakashi's eyes filled with dread as they saw where the shot landed. It had grazed the woman's head, leaving some blood and just barely not hitting her.

She started shake her head and tried to say over and over again, 'Don't fire, don't fire!"

Kakashi felt horrible both about scaring the woman and almost killing her. He knew he had to at least try the shot once again, but he couldn't blame the woman for not wanting him to try. She'd lost faith in him, so he needed to have complete faith in himself.

Ignoring the woman's objections he brought the gun up again to prepare for the shot of his life. He took the deepest breath he could, and slowly let it out as he pulled the trigger. At first Kakashi closed his eyes, not sure if he wanted to know whether he'd made the shot or not. The woman's happy grunting forced him to open his eyes, letting him know his shot had hit right on point. Something in the woman's chair clicked and whatever it was let her untie herself. She ripped the collar off from herself and ran out of the chair and at Kakashi.

Kakashi sighed in relief as she jumped over the window saying, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

Kakashi beamed as started to put his contact back in, "It was my pleasure Ms. I'm just glad you're okay. So what's the combo to get out of this place?"

The woman quickly recited, "Justice, the guy with the mask said it was the word justice!"

Kakashi turned to the keypad and put in the code. A click came from the door and Kakashi ripped it wide open, "Let's get the hell out of here while we still can. You go home to your husband. I'm just gonna try and put a stop to this."

The woman nodded dumbly and the ran the hell away. He didn't blame her for that, he really wished he could do that same.


Five traps had started this whole thing, and now only four people remained, as the woman Kakashi had saved quickly found her way out. Yet, the others still needed to stay so that they could survive. Well three in a half, considering the state that Hidan was in. He'd lost a lot of blood and a fucking leg. The odds weren't good for him being the one who made out of their alive. All four of them got out around the same time, Hidan took a little longer since he had to crawl, and met up at large steel door, with a table just in front of it. For some reason, there was a small vial on it with something inside of it.

When Kakashi, Eclair, and Kitsuchi first got the table, before they could even say anything to one another, they heard something crawling at them. At first they thought it was another one of Kakuzu's tricks, but it turned out to be something much frightening. It was just Hidan, crawling and swearing, "Hey you fuckers! Don't touch the damn table until I get there!"

Kitsuchi was shocked at the state he was in, "And I thought that I was all messed up. What the hell happened to him?"

"Looks like a pack of hyenas got to him," Eclair noted.

Hidan was close enough to her here and said, "Close, it was a pack of dogs. Aw, shit, this thing really hurts!"

Kakashi couldn't believe this guy was still moving, "How much fucking blood have you lost man?"

Hidan was leaving a trail of red behind him, "I don't know...not too much though! I can still make it!"

Eclair watched him try to each his blood soaked hand on the table and said, "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Fuck off…" Hidan was getting so weak that he could barely talk, "...I'm just...fine!"

Hidan put his hand on the table, but blood made it slip off right away. He slammed his head onto the ground, knocking him out. The man was losing so much blood and at such a fast rate. He'd be dead in just a few minutes. It was more or less down to just the three of them know.

Kakuzu once again came over the intercom, "Ah, it's nice to see that you all made it. This is Kakuzu, but I'm coming to you live this time. I must say, I'm impressed that three of you made it this far. You see, I'm going to give you one final challenge, and it's a relatively simple one. All you have to do is decided which of you is going to get the cure, as there's only enough for one of you."

Kitsuchi suddenly pointed to the vial on the table, "So this, right here! This is the cure?"

The intercom once again spit out Kakuzu's voice, "I never said anything like that."

Kitsuchi grabbed the vial, "So what if you never said it, this has to be the cure! What's to stop me from taking this."

Kitsuchi started to step away as Kakashi and Eclair started to step closer to him, "Don't be rash about this! We need to be reasonable here dammit!"

Kakuzu's voice started to warn him, "If you take that, you'll be robbing yourself of my challenge."

Kitsuchi didn't care about any challenge, "Fuck that! I'm gonna survive this damn thing no matter what!"

Before anyone could stop him, Kitsuchi ripped the top off from the vial and drank the contents. He smirked victoriously, but not for long. His mouth soon started to ooze bubbles and this strange spit, he could be heard choking and blubbering all the while. He soon fell to the ground, convulsing and spitting up blood.

Kakashi leaned down and looked at the man, "What in the hell is happening to him? Didn't he take the cure?"

Kakuzu knew he was going to have to explain, "Oh, that was just a decoy one. It actually had a deadly chemical in it. That was so that I could weed out another fool. Now the real crue, that's under the table. Feel free to take it any time you life. Just keep in mind, there's only enough for one of you to take it. Oh, I feel that I should work you, the floor underneath you won't be their much longer. You see, it'll start to pull out from under you soon enough with a little device I installed. You'd be shocked how cheap I got it for. Basically, you've got a minute to decided who gets it. Best of luck!"

Kakashi turned right to Eclair. When he looked into the woman's eyes, he just felt something. It wasn't love, too soon for that, but there was for sure something there. He just couldn't let her throw her life away for his, "You take the cure! Once this Kakuzu thing is over, I'll have nothing left in my life. I'm sure that you'll have something."

Eclair shook her head, as she also felt some kind of connection to this man, "No, it's my fault this whole thing even started. If I hadn't broken Kakuzu's heart like that, none of this would've happened. I need to pay for what I've done."

Kakashi saw no logic in that, "Look, I'm not letting you do it! None of this was your fault and I'm a cop, I need to protect pe, mph!"

He was cut off by Eclair shoving his mask down and kissing him. Between the shock of that and floor starting to recede, Kakashi wasn't even aware of Eclair starting to push him towards the door. Eclair back up towards the floor and Hidan and Kitsuchi's body fell down somewhere Kakashi couldn't see. They quickly heard ground moving, letting them know the drop wasn't far.

Eclair was still backing up, and Kakashi screamed 'No!' as she just let herself fall to whatever was underneath. Kakashi didn't know if she was gonna live or die right away, but he was afraid that she was gonna die from not taking the cure. It was clear what she'd wanted him to do, so he took the cure before the table could fall and drank the contents of the vial. The door behind him unlocked, letting Kakashi know it was time to see Kakuzu. There was a lot to see what that man had to answer for, and kakashi was eager to see what he would say. This would be an interesting conversation.


Kakashi stepped into Kakuzu's lair to find the man lying in a wheelchair, barely able to move. It looked liked he could hardly move. Kakuzu seemed all too happy to see the detective, "There you are Mr. Hatake. I just knew that you'd be the one who made it to the end. You seemed to fare much better from our little gunshot wound than I did. Not important, please, ask me anything you like. My answers will be completely honest!"

The first thing Kakashi had to ask was simple, "How much time does she have left before whatever you put into her, kills her?"

Kakuzu knew he was talking about Eclair, "Around 12 minutes left. After that, her heart will just pop like a balloon. Assuming the fall didn't kill her of course. This little base of mine is on a steep hillside after all, with lots of gravel. It's more like a small mountain really. She had to go the whole way down, good luck with that shit."

Kakashi had so many things he wanted to ask, "How did you do any of this? I mean, fucking look at you!"

Kakuzu just laughed at him, "When you have the kind of money I've got lying around, you can do just about anything. Even pull the wool over a couple of cop's eyes."

Kakashi just kept thinking of more and more questions to ask, but decided to ask none of them. There was one that just kept coming back that he felt he should ask, "Why Kakuzu? Why did you do this shit? Why did you do any of it? The killing, the ripping out the hearts, the revenge, why go through all this damn effort for something this wretched?"

Kakuzu looked at him for a few brief moment's in nothing but silence. Then he finally said, "Because humanity was a mistake. It was some kind of horrible cosmic mistake, and I had to let the world know that. Our lives only improve if some else suffers. What's the fucking point to any of this? It's all a fucked up little joke, that's what it is. That's why I did it all. I did it because nothing else matters."

Kakashi had a hard time believing someone could ever to this point in their life, and yet here the man was, in just that kind of state, "Well alright then...so now what? Do I have to kill you? Do you have to kill me? What the fuck are we supposed to do."

Kakuzu once again just took the time to stare at him, and then said, "Now you have a few different options. You can kill me, try and make me pay for what I've done."

Kakashi had no interest in causing more death, "You won't do anything now. You're little test is all over now. You've made everyone pay for hurting them. We'll never forget you. The world will never forget you...that's what you really wanted."

Kakuzu was impressed he got it, "Well said...then what do you want?"

Kakashi could only think of one thing that he wanted, "The cure, do you have anymore of it?"

Kakuzu pointed to a self on the side of the room, "They're right over there."

Kakashi saw a shelf full of vials on the counter and went over and picked on of them up. He examined the liquid to make sure that it was the right stuff before he turned around and started to leave, "Good bye Kakuzu...may you rot in hell you heartless son of a bitch."

With those words he opened the door and jumped down to try and find Eclair. Hopefully Eclair had survived and he could just give the cure to her. He didn't know what, but something and linked their paths together. Kakashi just prayed that one could thing could come from all this.

Four years latter

Kakashi was tossing back in forth in his bed, something clearly had him completely and utterly scared. He kept mumbling in his sleep, "No! No! No! Get away from me! Get away I said!"

The woman lying next to him started to shake him awake, "Kakashi, get up! It's not real, just wake up."

Kakashi's eyes shot open and he woke panting, "Oh god...I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think they might actually be getting better. That was the least terrifying one I had. Sorry if I woke you sweetie."

Eclair kissed him on the cheek and said, "It's okay babe, I get them all the time to. I almost died sliding down that mountain thing and you just barely got to me into time to get that cure."

Kakashi leaned back down and put his arm around her. He and Eclair had started dating after the Kakuzu incident, since they were the only ones who could understand each other's pain. Kakuzu had been incarcerated after Shikamaru told them where he was and was given the death penalty shortly after that. They were each other's salvation in life. For them, nothing else matter but each other. It was small consolation, but at least it was something.

Kakashi closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep. However, he kept hearing Kakuzu's voice in his head, "Hello there...are you ready for another test?"