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Okay, i feel horrible 'cause i made yall wait so long and then i come up with this scrawny little chapter. im soooo sorry! but i had a writers block and when i finally came up with an idea, i felt like i should just end the chapter here. so as punishment for me, im going to stay up and continue writing at least half of another chapter. i hope you LOVE it! smiles just so you know, today is Mother's DAY! you shouldn't be on fanfiction today, but rather spending time with your mothers!!

Oh! and i decided to start putting a review of the previous chapter up on the new one so youll remember what happened in the last chapter since i seem to not post chapters very quikly. Anyways: enjoy the story!

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Review: Chapter 7

The two cloaked figures sat quietly high up in a tree in the Daimyo's training ground, watching two figures throw shruikens at practice dummies. /Kakashi we have sight of Nobuyuki. We are starting attack./ Sai spoke through the earpiece to Team 1 while Naruto watched every movement of Nobuyuki, his vision enhanced by Kyuubi's eyes. "Ok," Sai whispered, "let's go. Remember, we are to capture him unharmed if at all possible, but if he resists, then we are to use any means available."

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Let's just get started so i can beat some sense into this idiot."

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Chapter 8: Confrontation

"So, your going to be taking the Jounnin exams soon? I'm taking the Chunnin exams pretty soon." Naruto said as he hit the dummy dead on for the third time in a row.

"Why is a guy your age still a Gennin? Shows what a sorry ninja you are." Nobuyuki plainly and mockingly stated.

"Hn, just wait, I'll become the greatest ninja in Konoha and protect the whole village as the Hokage!"

Nobuyuki continued to throw his kunai, ignoring Naruto's comments. "Why are you here?" He asked not once taking his eyes from the training dummy.

No reply.

"Hey, I said 'Why are you here?' Why did you insist on coming out to train with me, I don't believe that it's just to 'brush up on your skills.'"

Silence.

"Naruto?" Nobuyuki turned around to an empty yard, kuinai in hand; Naruto was no longer there. "Hn, he was annoying anyway." Nobuyuki slowly turned back around towards his training dummy.

"You really think I'm that annoying? I'd rather think of myself as energetic." A black cloaked figure said, lounging against Nobuyuki's training dummy, another cloaked figure stood next to him.

Nobuyuki gripped his kunai tighter and scowled, "Who are you?" He demanded, voice flat and calm yet powerful.

"What, you forgot me already?" Naruto stood up and took a step toward Nobuyuki, slowly pulling down his hood. His blood red demon eyes glowed eerily in the sparsely lit night.

"N-naruto?" Nobuyiki asked. His calm demeanor began to fade and curiosity and surprise surface his face. "What are you doing? You were just over here-"

"No. That wasn't me, at least not the real me. That was my bushin."

"Kage bushin no jutsu..." Nobuyuki mumbled under his breath.

"Oh, so you've heard of it? Good, that saves me the time explaining. Anyways, you need to come with us; if you resist we will take you by force."

Nobuyuki laughed, "Why would I come with you? I know who you are, I know what you've been doing. My father asked Konoha to eliminate me before I eliminated him. So you guys joined our group and tried to infiltrate from the inside, ne? I know what's going on, this is my father's is doing; that trashy father of mine just wants me gone and out of his way so I don't kill him and take his place." Nobuyuki scoffed. He threw his kunai; it flew barely a hairsbreadth away from grazing Naaruto's face and hit the dummy dead center. He retrieved another kunai from his pouch and threw it with pinpoint accuracy towards the dummy. The kunai didn't get the chance to hit the dummy though as Naruto statched it from the air and twirled it on his index finger; the thickness and heaviness of the atmosphere around the three increased.

"Urasai." His aim true, Naruto threw the Kunai back towards Nobuyuki in the blink of an eye. It flew past Nobuyuki and he brought his hand up to his face and touched the blood on his cheek, the remnants of the kunai opening his skin. "URASAI!" Naruto shouted again, "You have no idea why your father called us, why we're here in the first place. Your father doesn't want to kill you, he just wants you to stop being the leader of Kizoku and stop killing people! He doesn't want you to get too involved and wind up getting hurt!" He continued, still shouting. Naruto then dropped down to his knees clutching his smarting head. "Ahhh, no not now!" Naruto's nail grew longer into pointy sharp claws, his teeth grew into large canines, and his whiskers grew thick and dark.

"Naruto, are you alright?" Sai asked slightly worried and walking over to him.

'Y-yeah...more of Kyuubi's chakra leaked out."

/Naruto are you ok?/ Kakashi asked, hearing the conversation over the earpiece.

/Don't push yourself too hard./ Sakura also commented, truly worried.

"Maybe you should sit this one out, I can take care of him on my own." Sai suggested.

"Hn, I still got to teach this guy a lesson, I'm not leaving yet." Naruto stuggled to his feet, "I will ask once more, surrender now or we will fight you."

Nobuyuki smirked, "Is that so? You'll have quite a hard time though, since I have two squad of back-up nearby."

"You mean those guys?" Kakashi, Sai, Naruto, and Sakura stepped out of the shadows of the house behind Nobuyuki, pointing to a group of men in aprons tied up by ropes and a smaller group of men in black also tied up.

Nobuyuki spun around, "W-what? How?"

Kakashi pulled out his Icha-IchaParadise book and began reading. He shrugged, "We knew you had to have spies in your own home watching the Daimyo; it's easy to figure out which ones they are by simply observing their actions."

"It's your decision; come with us, or ... come with us -- only you wont be conscious." Sai shrugged holding his hands out like a scale weighing Nobyuki's options. Nobuyuki stared at Sai then at Naruto, watching them act calmly as if nothing were amiss.

"Naruto," Kakashi commented, "you can release your bushin now, they're no longer needed."

"Hai." Naruto clapped his hands together and the bushin of Naruto and Sai that were next to Kakashi poofed out of existance.

"Nobuyuki, what is your answer? Will you come with us without a fight, or will we have to take you forcefully with a very slim chance for you to ever receive your father's position when the time comes." Sakura said after she had finished tending to the wounds of the few that had been injured while captured.

"HA...ha ha ha ha ha!" Nobuyuki laughed hauntingly in the silent moonlight, "Like I care if I take over my father's role as Daimyo! I told you, I don't care what happens to that old bastard or to this freakin' village! All I want is to be at the top, to be the most powerful ninja in all five hidden villages! Go ahead, fight me if you can!"

Naruto stared at Nobuyuki, hate eminating from his body, deep, blood-thirsty eyes locked on Nobuyiki's form, head pounding from the pressure of Kyuubi. "I said, urasai." He said quietly, deadly, manacingly. The intensity of the atmosphere shot up as Naruto fell to his knees again, clutching his beating head. He began to get dizzy and his vision began to blur The last thing he saw was Kakashi concentrating on him, instead of his book, with a look of realization on his face, Sakura and Sai running towards him, shouting mumbled words, and Nobuyuki who looked both surprised and a little worried at Naruto's pain.

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