-Chapter Ten-
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The temple remained intact as far as they knew.
"So gathering the information we collected from your son The Hyūga Clan gave their most prestigious members for this place as some kind of sacrifice?" Sasuke looked at the pillars and the figures that stood in the top. "This chakra that surrounds this place feels as if it mind of its own."
"Wouldn't call it a sacrifice." Shikaku tilted his head as he took a cigarette out of his pocket, That caught Sasuke's attention. The young male shook his head an Shikaku simply shrugged and continued his talk. "More like a experiment... These nutcases left out information slip easily. Doesn't that just sound too obvious of a trap?"
"We didn't hide out our own intentions either. Heard you planned to put the Hyūga in close danger, a obvious bait of our part. They seemed to plan the same thing..."
"What? Being obvious that both of us are putting all the good cards on the table in this mission? Yeah." Shikaku took a long smoke and breathe it out. Sasuke's nose irritation was shown when the Sharingan user covered his nose with his sleeve. "They don't know what dangerous thing this place covers and neither do we..."
That's why they both toyed with the monks; and the monks played with them.
"Where is your son? We need to find out who gave him that information."
Shikaku smirked at the mention of his son. Couldn't help his mouth to open at such opportunity.
"He is dealing with his girlfriend right now. Wouldn't like to see what they doing right now in the privacy of their room, but if you wanna take a peek go ahead Uchiha."
Sasuke turned his head slowly towards him and raised an eyebrow. Shikaku loved messing around with stuck up kid, he needed a good beating when it came to socializing. Didn't hated him much, but he didn't trusted him much either. Trying to eliminate Konoha didn't suited with Shikaku.
But, they were dealing with business not becoming some sort of buddies.
"Did your Unit found anything?"
"Nothing in particular. They still sneaking inside their monasteries. No guards or any signal of defenses, means they really hiding something really good or they just waiting for the perfect moment."
"And that is?"
"A moment to use the Hyūga."
Sasuke closed his eyes and slowly took out a kunai in the trees. The sound of a man screaming was heard, Shikaku's face turning rigid as he threw his cigarette.
"You never fail to spot the enemy do you?"
"And you never fail to hide your moves Leader of Unit Two?" The Uchiha took out a scroll. "You are planning of using the Hyūga. No, of sacrificing him for the sake of the village..."
"No... I plan to experiment. Which if it turns out ugly the you can call it a sacrifice. How did you figure it out?"
Sasuke threw a scroll at Shikaku's feet.
"You placed me here to experiment with me too? And you know more to this place than anyone, you are willing to use the Hyūga and sacrifice him for the sake of protecting the village from whatever the hell this place holds. You're placed under Unit Two, but we know you are the one in charge of the mission not me."
Shikaku shrugged and slowly took out another cigar.
"You made use of my chakra and you knew that there was a chance I might had died in this place."
"Hn, I do my job. This place won't kill you unless you are from the descendant of Kaguya." Shikaku threw his cigarette once again. "Ever heard of the five Gods that sat upon the throne of the sky? Sounds like a fairy tale, but it makes sense after you look more into it. There seems to be this legend where Kaguya and the powerful shinobis at time offered part of their chakra in a single place to form some kind of ultimate successor."
"You mean."
"The Temple of the Five Moons is a energy without a body. Or more like a energy looking for a specific body and soul to posses. Wanna see what happens if the Hyūga would get inside that place?"
Shikaku in a fast move disappeared and reappeared feet away from the Uchiha. Sasuke moved his feet and caught up with him, behind them appeared Kakashi and Yamato. They had been spying and hearing everything.
"What are you gonna show us Shikaku? A magic trick?"
"Hn, Joke Hayate is not gonna be funny when you see the sparkles appearing with this magic trick. And all I need is this."
He took out what looked like a long thread. Brown color and familiar to Kakashi.
"You stole hair from the Hyūga?"
"Not stolen, borrowed."
They arrived at the temple. Shikaku paused some meters away. No guards whatsoever, didn't meant there weren't any flies around looking at them.
"Yamato, care to give us some hand with any flies around? If they see they might go berserk." Yamato moves out of their group and the remaining moved inside the temple. Shikaku gave a signal for Kakashi and Sasuke to pause at a safe distance. He threw the hair in the floor. The chakra floating suddenly moved and proceeded to surround the long hair. "Funny ain't it?"
"What the hell?" Kakashi suddenly understood. "Is not destroying it..."
"Which means this is what the chakra in this place wants. Just wait for it."
"Wait for what?"
"The magic..." Shikaku moved far from the center of the Temple.
The hair floated in the center and the chakra danced slowly around it. But, it took few seconds to see how the chakra moved with a more brusque rhythm as it moved closer and closer to the hair. The Pillars shone and the particles of chakra paused their dance. The sound of ghastly screams were heard from the statues.
"What the hell is going on?"
"Give ir a minute Kakashi...Is not a pretty sight."
The pillars changed their color to a pitch black and the statues turned the same color. Their screams grew louder and louder until they unified in a horrendous scream that echoed inside the Temple. Kakashi and Sasuke covered their ears, but what happened next made them not care much about the loud screams.
Shikaku pointed up.
They looked up. There stood the moon white and luminous, then out of nowhere appeared another moon. Then the third, the fourth, and finally the fifth.
"Do they look familiar?"
"Kaguya's moon?"
"Not only hers. The more powerful Kages moons. Better move out..."
"Why?"
The five moons turned black.
"What the hell?!" A cascade of black chakras fell from the moons into the center of the Temple. Like a cascade of blood the Chakras surrounded the hair and danced once again, but the chakra seemed to form large hands.
"Now move!"
The black liquid took form of large hands approaching for whatever stood near it. It reached for Kakashi,Sasuke, and Shikaku. They all moved out. The large hands reached for whatever form of life was near. A bird nearby was captured and destroyed.
Shikaku took what look like a control and proceeded to press it in the knit of time before a hand almost captured him. Something inside the temple had exploded .
Everything turned back to normal. The pillars turned white and the moon recovered its white color. There was no trace of the other moons. The chakra in the temple danced in a slow synchronization. The hair was nowhere to be found.
"I put a small object that explodes in the hair. As soon as I pressed the button it burn out the whole hair."
"What was that?!"
"Temple of The Five Moons wasn't the correct name for this place. Is The Temple of the Five. Five Gods who decided to create a place where they cultivated for their new kid."
Sasuke blinked. He had used his Rinnegan, but the chakra never reacted to it.
"What you trying to say is..."
"This place was built to eliminate us from this planet basically and start with a new successor for the Five Kages. And it seems Hyūga was the right pick for those assholes."
He looked at Sasuke. "No even the Rinnegan works against it I take it?"
Sasuke burrowed his expression.
"Watch your mouth Nara."
"Then you better get in line with me here Uchiha. I used you for the sake of saving this planet, but there isn't much I can do other than ask you to do what I order you in that scroll. I know you been evading it, but you better finish it off." He threw a familiar scroll at Sasuke. "Put the Hyūga back in line too. And I put my son too. And is not a favor. Is an order."
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Thanks for reading is been a long time! Sorry for any typos or errors. Sorry for not many Shikamaru and Neji moments, but next chapter would show more of them I promise.