Well, heres another chappy, thank you Kingswriter for your review. Your right I do thank you. I'm right on scheduale for what I want for the tenth chapter. I hope you guys like it. Its got a good ending. We're finally starting to get into the story and it's still only just the beginning. Barely at 20 percent done if that.

Here you go, enjoy. Review at the end.

Naruto jumped down to the ground and rolled. He put his back against a tree and waited for any movement. This is why he hated training with Sasuke. He was too fast and too quiet, at least an Iwa nin made his whereabouts known. Figuring that Sasuke would use his Kusanagi, he pulled out his own katana slowly. He slipped around the edge of the tree and tightened his grip. For some reason he knew Sasuke was watching him. "Come on" he whispered. "Make your move."

He barely had enough time to react as Sasuke appeared next to him. Narut leaped to the side and hit the ground. He brought his blade around and blocked Sasuke's strike. "Good your getting better" the Uchiha said. Naruto smirked and tried to bring it down to stab him in the shin but Sasuke shot his leg back and launched himself forward. His blade heading for Naruto's chest. The blond reached forward and pushed on the back of Sasuke's blade to parry it. He ducked under the strike and slashed at his side but he shushined out of view.

"Damn" he growled as he raised his blade and spun around to block four more attacks before he disappeared again. Naruto jumped back into flip to dodged the falling swing from Sasuke. "You've lost" Sasuke said appearing behind Naruto with Kusanagi at his throat. "You should ditch the sword. Your terrible" he proceeded to say. Naruto scoffed then stood up. "I hate swords, I can never use these things. The styles are way to complicated for me."

"Tch, dobe."

"You know it" he said with small smirk. They both sheathed they're blades and headed back towards the village. Naruto straightened his back and cracked it, they had been going on about six hours of non stop training. It had been six months after the attack by Iwa. The village had been resurected back into its former glory. Sasuke and Mitch had gained they're ranks as chuunin, and Sasuke went onto jounin. When Naruto had asked Mitch why he didn't enter the jounin exams, he claimed he wasn't ready yet. Which from what, Naruto had seen was untrue. The man had really come into his own. He was currently the only chuunin to handle solo B rank missions, even an occasional A with a team.

Naruto parted with Sasuke and headed home. It had been a long day. Now he was able to go home and lay with his fiance and soon to be wife. They're wedding was in a week. Needless to say, he was given an awesome bachleor party. But it went south when the stripper Sasuke brought in as a joke....was Anko. Despite her hating perverts, she just couldn't pass up the opprotunity to fuck with the blond knucklehead. However she did injury Sasuke for suggesting her in the first place.

He walked into his home and slipped off his shoes. Setting his blade upright by the door, he moved silently through his house and saw Hinata on the living room couch, musing over a scroll. To Naruto it looked like a mission scroll. Since it was a time of war, all war missions went through the council before becoming an authorized mission. So Hinata was probably reading over a situation breifing. Naruto rolled his eyes because as a shinobi he wasn't allowed to know. But he knew what it was about already.

For the last five months there have been attacks on villages throughout the elemental nations. At first Konoha suspected Iwa shinobi ransacking these small villages. The population was killed then burned. Over night the place was nothing but burning wood. Then it happened to a village inside Rock country. It's been a total mystery. So far there had been no explination. Naruto picked up an apple from the table and sat across from her. "Hey hime" he said as he sat down next to her. She looked up for him for about a second and went back to her scroll. "You stink."

"Oh, geez thanks" he said sarcastically. His grin spread acrossed his face as he ate the apple. "It's actually distracting me from my work" Hinata laughed slightly. "Please shower." Naruto laughed. "Oh really?" He got up and laid ontop of her and started to roll. "Oh no, look what I'm doing! How could I be so cruel?" Hinata started to hit him softly and tried to get him off. She laughed as he fell to the floor. "Fine, I'll shower."

As he left, Hinata went back to her scroll. The council decided earlier to send an investigation team into these mysterious attacks. The Tsuchikage claims not to be attacking. So has the other villages. Tsunade thought it could be Akatsuki but they're response was the money wasnt in it. The last attack was at a remote village in wave country. Each Kage sent a represenative to investigate the site. Thats the report she was reading. There were no survivors. Most of the villagers were dissembowled or chared corpses. Others looked like they had been chewed on which sent more worry into the air. What could the Five Nations be dealing with?

She sighed and set the scroll down as Naruto came out and flicked his wet hair at her. Hinata tried to glare at him but his smile made it impossible. "Your impossible to be mad at" she groaned.

"My only tactical advantage" he responded with a wink. "So whats the deal with the scroll?"

"Report on the investigation of Otakai, the wave village. Just another massacre." Naruto groaned and rubbed his face. "I smell an A-rank mission coming."

Hinata gave him a weary smile and leaned into the couch. It wasn't like they needed the money but in Naruto's mind. Hinata decided to go all out for the wedding. A week from now they would be getting married. And the thing that had her excited the most? Not her husband to be but the golden chair cushions. It was an assassination he planned for the day before. The problem at hand was that they were having to budget Naruto's ramen fund. For Naruto, there was no such thing as a ramen fund so the situation had to be corrected at once.

He often took big ranked missions to settle the pay so Hinata could have the wedding she's always wanted. Naruto often cursed his father for not leaving him any cash, but the house was good enough. Wasn't too big for a person wanting to start a family. He usually paid Tsuande C-rank pay to have Mitch clean it. Every time he showed up with a bucket and soap, he would be saying stuff to Naruto in the other language in a friendly tone, but Naruto knew he was cursing him. "What the fuck are you doing making me clean your fucking house? You should be doing this! You lazy son of a bitch!" That didn't seem too friendly to Naruto. But he enjoyed torrmenting him while he worked.

Naruto smiled and lifted Hinata off the couch bridal style and carried her to the bedroom. "What are you doing Naruto-kun?"

"Practicing" he replied to make her blush. He dashed into the room and tossed her on the bed. As he was about to jump into bed, he froze. Something inside him stirred uncomfortably. 'Kyuubi?'

"Kit, somethings off. I feel demons all over the place. Be on your guard!"

"Naruto-kun? Whats the matter?"

"Shh" he said suddenly and he moved toward the window. He pulled the drapes open slowly and glanced outside. The motion lights hadn't turned on. Hinata looked at him with a look of confusion. 'What's he doing now?'

'I feel it. There's something out there.'

"Something? No Kit, you have to work on your senses. There's enough out there to make a small army, but they don't appear hostile. Maybe they're just passing through, I don't know. I'll keep an eye on them, try to get some sleep. I'll wake you if anything changes."

'Thanks.' Naruto frowned and crawled into bed with his fiance. "What was that all about?" Naruto turned and looked at her with a serious face. "Get some sleep Hime, we might need it. I have a bad feeling. If anything happens I'll wake you up, understand?"

Hinata nodded and turned to her side. She felt his arm wrap around her waist and pull her towards his chest protectively. Smiling, she snuggled in closer and whispered goodnight. He did the same as he ran his hands over her stomach to put her to sleep. When her breathing evened out, Naruto closed his eyes and drifted to sleep, only to find himself in his mindscape. The need to speak with Kyuubi was overwhelming. Not that they've gotten along ever, but this new informations of demons being inside Konoha put the mighty Kyuubi in a cooperative mood. Naruto came walking into the room with the holding cell and saw the outline of the giant fox moving inside the cage. He was obviously on high alert.

"What's going on Kyuubi?" The fox turned and spotted him. "They're moving away. So for now theres no reason to worry."

"Your normally not this cooperative. Why the sudden change?"

"If it was a Bijuu I wouldn't be worried about baka. These were different. They're signatures read different from anything I've ever encountered. And there's only one place they could come from which would give them THAT signature."

"I don't like the way this conversations going" Naruto moaned. He sat down in the water and sighed. "What are the odds of them attacking us?"

"Probable, I suspect it was a recon group, scouting to see if this would be an easy kill. If they thought otherwise we wont have to worry. Theres no need to worry yourself, if Konoha is an easy kill for them, you probably wont feel a thing."

"That makes me feel so much better."

"Don't worry about it, just get some sleep."

Naruto nodded and freed his mind, he felt himself fall into the abyss of sleep. Kyuubi watch him disappear and sighed. He wasn't exaggerating when he said Naruto wouldn't feel a thing. The beings he sensed were soldier demons. Te only time he had encountered them before were on the battlefield millenia ago. They were ruthless and didn't stop until ordered or all of their enemies were dead at they're feet. The fact that they were around didn't worry him to bad. Kyuubi pulled into a corner of his cage and curled up. He didn't like where the situation was going. As much as he hated to admit it, he had grown a new foundness of the boy since they're experience in the valley.

He never knew that the Namikaze's had a blood tie to the spire in the valley. It was always some sort of myth that circled throughout the supernatural world. Kyuubi knew most of it was far fetched but after seeing it with his own two eyes. He figured he would stick around longer. If there was a part he could play in helping Naruto, his name would go down in history longer than it already has. Not that he had a choice in the matter. He never told the boy but his father reinforced the seal with another after the little mishap when Pein had attacked the village. Unless Naruto himself removed the seal, if he escaped, he would die. Kyuubi sighed as he accepted his fate. He would help Naruto until the end, he was probably going to need it.

Tsunade shuffled some papers and placed them neatly on her desk. Another days work complete and now she was able to go home and get some sleep. She took a bottle of sake out from her desk for the walk home but as she was heading for the door, someone knocked. The blond groaned and set the bottle down, "Enter." The door opened and her new favorite chuunin came walking in. He was rubbing his face and there were dark bags under his eyes. "Sorry I'm a little late, Hokage-sama. I had a few issues to settle."

"It's no problem Mitch, I'll just review it in the morning." Mitch nodded and placed the mission report on her desk. Another B rank assassination complete and under his belt. Tsunade looked at his clothes and noticed they were covered with dirt and blood. She had always wondered where he had gotten his clothes, she figured it was from his world but she never remembered to ask. He had on a black tshirt and a pair of black jeans. On his feet were metal plated combat boots and his kunai pouch were attached to a studded belt. His hands were covered in black fingerless gloves and on his head was a full face balaclava with a skull face. When it was fully on, only the areas around the eyes were visible.

"I expect you to get a good couple days rest. I have an A rank mission I need taken care of in Rice country" she explained. "I need you in tip top form, got it?" Mitch bowed and flickered from sight. Another technique he shouldn't know yet. His training with Naruto and Sasuke had been paying off. Seeing he had a elemental affinity for lightning, Sasuke was able to teach him alot. His other prominant element was earth, probably from his heritage in Iwa. Either way he was posing a great help to the village while her other shinobi were out taking care of Iwa's forces.

Tsunade picked up his file and flipped through it quickly. In each mission report three things were needed. One, how the objective was achieved. Two, body count. Three, all jutsu used in the helping of the objective. In all of the mission reports she ever recieved, his were the most decisive. He wasn't strategic, he just knew the easiest way to get something done. She read in his report that all he did to complete this mission was sneak into his targets hotel suite and take him out in the bathroom. Body count, one. Jutsu used, none. She wouldn't ask him how he ended up covered in blood, that was a personal matter. He could have stabbed the target in the kidney letting him die fast or smashing his head repeatedly into the bathroom sink before finishing him by slamming it into the cabinet mirror. Either way the job was done.

She pulled the cork on her bottle of sake and took a quick drink before looking at the file she had for him next. Some Kiri and Iwagakure nin had been spotted on the border of Fire and Wind country. The report said two or three, but they were at least jounin rank. She decided to see if Mitch was up to the task. If he could take them out, she was going to promote him to Jounin and send him to the front lines. Hopefully some good would come out of that mission. After another drink her eyes drifted toward a rather thick manilla envelope which was going to be sent to Naruto in the morning. Inside was the mission details of the mysterious attacks that had been going around. They also would be heading west toward the border. Sabaku no Gaara, the Kazekage had agreed to send a troop of nins they're way for back up, since the fight might spill into his borders.

Even Akatsuki was sending a couple representatives, since the threat of them being attacked was also high. Tsunade figured it was either going to be Kisame and that Ao character. If not Neji. She never did get why the man had defected in the first place. He just sort of up and left.

Tsunade sighed and set the file down. She grabbed her sake and heading out the door, chugging the bottle as the alcohol rolled down her throat.

Raigeki and Neji stood amounst the flames and could do nothing but stare. The entire village, citizens and guards, were all ripped to shreds, none had been spared. Neji kneeled down next to the top half of a child, his entire body was cleaved in two. The more they examined the bodies, they noticed the faces. All of them were eteched with fear. Each one looked like it had seen something out of they're worst nightmare. It was truely a scary sight to behold. "What did this" Raigeki said setting down a womans arm. Neji stood up and looked around. "I don't know, but we're going to make them pay."

The younger nodded and started to shuffle through the corpses. "What kind of person, kills the people, burns the village, and doesn't take anything" Raigeki asked. Neji shrugged and noticed he was right, all the bodies still had they're belongings on them. They felt a familiar presence behind them and could tell the newcomer was apalled at the sight before her.

"This is the first attack in Rain country" she said. "I'm sure there will be more."

"Konan-sempai" Raigeki said. "Will this hinder our goals?"

"No" she said. "In fact it may be a sufficient way to speed them up. If we can meet whoever did this before they destroy the next village, they might be able to take out Kisame. At the range of this damage, I'm sure they might be able too." Both Akatsuki nodded and wadded through the bodies until they were outside the walls. Konan had disappeared so the other members didn't know she was in contact with Neji and Raigeki. Neji gave a thumbs up to Ao, who was in control clean up. Moments later, Ami nin were moving into the village to secure the corpses. Ao just stood there, staring in with his Byakugan. "For such a big battle there should be excess chakra laying around somewhere. But there's no chakra residue at all."

"This day keeps getting weirder and weirder" Raigeki said. His two comrades nodded and they proceeded to head back towards Amigakure. A few yards away, a certain Jashinist was contemplating taking Ao's head off as an offer to Jashin. Hidan couldn't explain what it was about the shinobi that made Hidan hate him so much. He couldn't decide if it was his some-what pompous attitude, his greed, or the arrangement of his facial features. Whatever it was, Hidan wanted to destroy it. It was becoming hard for him not being able to offer to Jashin, but he was under strict rule by Konan. He sighed and strapped his sythe to his back, then headed off to the rendezous to meet Konan.

"There's been reports of another attack" Shizune told Tsunade the next morning. The busty blond sighed and took out a marker, putting a dot on the new village's coordinates. Another village, another large amount of wasted lives. She traced her fingers along the dots. 'Rock, Rain, Fire, and Wave' she thought. 'Whats the connection?'

Tsunade examined the dots closer, then she put her fingers on the distance markers and found the distance between each attacked village. She gasped when she realized the space was exactly the same. Re-doing the math she came to same conclusion. All the attacked villages were exactly 250 kilometers away from eachother! It wasn't until she saw the distance did she noticed the shape of the dots. "No way" she breathed. Taking a blank sheet of paper she scribbled a few notes and handed them to Shizune. "Find out if theres a village 250 kilometers west of Mako. If there is, get Naruto and bring him to me imediately."

Shizune nodded and bolted for the door. A couple moments later, Tsunade was walking out of the door with a letter in her hand. There was no time to waste. She headed up to the messanger birds and personally attatched it to a doves leg. "Take that to Danzou" she said. The bird tweeted and took off. By the time she got back to her office, Naruto and Shizune were standing by the window.

"Tsunade-sama" Shizune said. "You were correct, theres a village called Utikari in that direction." Tsunade nodded and sat down at her desk. "What's going on Baa-chan?"

"I figured out the next village, and the last attack." Naruto cocked his eyebrow and looked at the map. His mouth fell open in suprise when he saw the dots. "They want us to go there. They've been planning this" he exclaimed. "That's no coincidence Baa-chan."

Tsunade agreed and traced her fingers to the coordinates of the next attack. The other attacks were a map, each one leading the way to its final destination. Utikari. "Naruto, take as many people as you need and make sure you stop that attack. You'll have Akatsuki as back up. Kill all those responsible."

"With pleasure" Naruto said and disappeared.

Danzou read over the letter he had just received from the Hokage. He was imediately in action. Kisame, Neji, Raigeki, Juugo, and Suigetsu were on they're way to offer back up at the new attack site. He sat at his desk looking over some information about the attacks when a shinobi came running in. "Danzou-sama! Important news from the cornors office!"

"Go ahead" he said impassively. What important news could come from corpses? "Sir, the charred corpses had remains from the living in they're fingers. Along with that DNA testing showed that all of them had been deceased for a year or more!" Danzou looked through the shinobi with his sharingan, and it didn't lie. The boy was telling the truth. "How could the deceased get up and rip about the village inhabitants?"

"No chakra was found on the bodies sir. But the DNA tests proved that all those were registered dead by the village, they were all at one time residents. We figured that they're cause of death had been from being burned but they had been the ones comitting the crimes!" Danzou swallowed hard. There was no way he was hearing this report. The dead rose and attacked the village? Impossible! The only person to have been able to raise the dead temporarily was Orochimaru and he was currently in hiding.

"This changes everything" said Danzou before returning to his reports. "I want Konoha along with my men aware of this situation. It needed to be done five minutes ago."

"Hai Danzou-sama!"

Mitch fingered through a list of songs on his Ipod and turned the volume up as loud as it could go. He tied a bandana around his head and grabbed his weapon. The music blasted throughout his apartment as he stepped into the bathroom. "Time to die soap scum!" In his hand was a toilet brush and in the other, a basket full of cleaning products. He started to scrub and sing the words to the song that played.

Warriors with hate inflict destruction
Comes true the awful prediction
Still alive corpses lie in the street
Spitting the blood to the God
Dying in flames dammed mob
Screaming with pain: "This can't be, oh God"
Maybe they will understand he was never
But will be too late, so die forever

Different Armageddon came true under our eyes
Dust comes down when the time came for sunrise
The final massacre, winds destroy the earth
Impaled heads notify, that winner is the Death

As he sang, he didn't hear his apartment door opening and closing. Consentrating on a portion of the floor so hard he barely realized this person was standing over him. "How!"

"SHIT" he screamed and lept to his feet. Only to stand pissed off at the laughing woman infront of him. "Damn it Ino! How many times do I have to tell you not to sneak in here!?" Ino could hardly breath as she clutched her side. It was more of the sight of what Mitch looked like when he jumped, then the way he was dressed. The little bandana, apron, and rubber gloves. The toilet brush was now lodged in the ceiling from when he jumped. Mitch moved passed her and shut off the music. "What were you saying" he asked when she caught her breath. Ino quickly wiped a tear from her eye before chuckling.

"How can you listen to that noise" she asked after she calmed down. "I could hear it all the way at the shop. I'm suprised ANBU hasn't been sent over." Mitch shrugged and took off all his bathroom protective gear. "What did you come here for Ino?"

"Dad wanted to know if you could help him for a few minutes at the shop. I'm leaving on a mission tonight with Naruto." Mitch sighed and nodded. "Yeah I'll go lend him a hand. I can't work too late I have a mission in the morning as well. And this was my only day off to clean the bathroom. Fuck" he said with a small chuckle. Ino thanked him and gave him a small kiss on the cheek before she left. Mitch groaned and slipped on a diffrent pair of work clothes. Even as a ninja he couldn't escape being the flower boy. He would help Inoichi out every so often when he needed it. Over the past six months, Ino had been there to help Mitch get over the loss of Sakura. While he still wasn't over it, his overall attitude towards everything else bettered. They became close friends. Almost brother and sister. It was a good relationship, he often expected Ino to harbor feelings for him but he had told her right off the bat, he didn't like her that way.

That didn't stop they're friendship from progressing though. Mitch locked the door behind him as he left and headed down the street towards the flower shop. It was a nice day, alot of clouds to provide shade and it was cool, just the way Mitch like it. He entered the flower shop and saw Inoichi sitting at the counter with a glazed look over his eye. "You dead yet old man?" The elder looked at him and smiled. In the blink of an eye, Mitch was being pulled to his knees with Inoichi next to him. He was looking out of the window at something, it was like a big billboard. "What is it?"

"You haven't heard? Some unknown author is continuing the Icha Icha series!"

"What the hell is that? It sounds like a dirty boo- It is isn't it?" Inoichi grinned, "I heard it tops the works of the great Jiraiya. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. The person who writes them now must be swimming in pus.....you know."

"Uh huh....... Well what do you need help with? Come on chop chop, I've got a busy scheduale to keep."

Naruto put his mask on and turned it on. He attached his blade directly above his ninjato so they both above his left shoulder. After putting on his gloves, he toggled through his masks new features like rear cameras to see behind him. He wasnt holding back if he was going up against an unknown force. Next to him, Sasuke strapped on his shoulder armor. "You ready for this" the blond asked. Sasuke nodded and slipped his mask on. "I was born ready."

Behind him on the other side of the locker room, Lee was wrapping his arms in gray wraps. "I'm ready to deliver a little payback myself" he said. The door to the locker room opened and Ino walked in. "Oh my! Hurry and get changed before the girl shows up." Naruto chuckled and secured a shuuriken holster to his thigh. "We hurried so we could enjoy the show without being distracted."

"Very funny" she said and walked to her locker on the other side of the wall. Naruto laughed and had just enough time to notice someone was watching her as she left. He actually had to do a double take to make sure he was processing what he was seeing. "Sasuke! Were you just checking out Ino?" Sasuke seemed to freeze for a moment then gave Naruto a hard glare, "You tell anyone and Hinata will have to find a new man to have children with."

"Just didn't know you had a thing for blonds" Naruto said. "Oh and Ino." Sasuke grunted and went back to boots. Inside his own mind, Sasuke was having trouble deciding how he felt about the girl. Ever since the day she threatened him, he seen her in a different way. Maybe he was just so used to the academy days he never realized how much she had grown up.

Naruto looked over towards Lee and saw him standing up. The back of his armor had a kanji for youthful on it. It was Lee's own idea but someone as a joke, spray painted an arrow that pointed to his ass. Lee never did know why everyone was laughing when he was wearing his uniform until today. He turned on his rear camera and saw himself in a mirror. "Aw that's very very unyouthful."

"Not from what I can see" Naruto laughed. Lee just silently stare at Naruto and turned his head and froze. Naruto cocked his head to the side and walked infront of him. He waved his hand over his face but didn't get a reaction. "Lee what are you" he started but he looked over his shoulder and saw what Lee was seeing in his rear cameras, "I'm going to just stop talking." Sasuke sighed and looked in the direction they were looking and saw the mirror that pointed directly into the girls side of the locker room.

Ino knew full well that all three men were looking at her through the mirror. She found it embarassing at first and tried to avoid it as much as possible but when Sasuke started to look she couldn't help but show herself off a little. Ino knew full well she wasn't a fan girl of him anymore. She wasn't going to chase him or be an obsessed person over him. But she sorta liked him. If he asked her on a date she wouldn't refuse.

Ino finished dressing and putting on her mask. She looked into the mirror and discovered Lee and Naruto had stopped peeping, Sasuke on the other hand looked away when she looked into it. "You about ready Ino?"

"Yeah Naruto I'm coming. Don't get your panties in a bundle."

"For the last damn time the elastic wore out!"

"Whatever help you sleep at night" said Sasuke. Naruto grunted and they headed out of the locker room towards the gates. They sprinted through heading west. All four of them hoped they would make it in time to stop the attack.

Since the first month of his arrival in Konoha, Mitch had mixed feeling for the pendant that hung on his neck. It could be a curse that almost lead to the destruction of his new home. Or it could be a blessing, which he used to upgrade his apartment. Of course he didn't have money to pay for these upgrades but nothing a five finger discount couldn't fix. For now it was a blessing, as he sat with Inoichi with six pack of Dos Equis and fifth of tequila.

They were in the back room drinking away merrily when Mitch noticed the time. "Alright Inoiiiti, I gots togo home for some sweep" he said drunkenly. "I have a mission! In the morning." Inoichi barely looked up at him, the tequila hit him hard. Mitch chuckled and stood up, "Your gonna have one...uh...oh bad hangover in the mornin." The elder mumbled something and laid on the table. Mitch walked out the door and to his apartment. To his own suprise it was only seven at night. 'Happy hour came early' he thought as he made it back to his apartment in one peice. So far that was good. Now he had to make it in without being noticed by the newest tenent inside. Her home was destroyed in the Iwa attack and she relocated to this complex. And she happened to have a thing for messing with everyone, especially him.

'Maybe it was something in the water' he thought. 'Too much of it could drive the woman insane to the point where she'll hunt me down like a dog.' "Well, if it comes to it I'll have to cut her head off and bury her somewhere." The old lady on the steps above him stopped and looked down at him. 'Did I just say that? Was she listening? Did she hear me?' The lady shrugged and continued while Mitch went to his door quickly. He stuck his key in the hole just as someone leaned against the wall next to him. "Hi Mitchy."

"Of all times Anko, please let me be drunk in peace."

"Not a chance" she said ruffling his hair with her hands. He looked at her and she was in her usual attire which left nothing to the imagination. She followed him inside and imediately went to his fridge. "Why do you have peanut butter in the fridge?"

Mitch laid on his couch and let the bed spins take over. "Don't question my methods" he simply said. Sleep was about to hit him when he felt a foot go directly into his crotch. He jumped up and gripped her ankle, "What are you doing?"

"Causing you discomfort" she said then ate a peice of sushi. "I've been bored all day and have had no one to play with."

"I have a mission in the morning Anko, I need to sleep." Anko pouted and removed the foot from his lower regions. He thanked her and laid back. "We'll have play time when I get back" he said. "We'll get so shit faced, you wont see straight for a week."

"Deal" she said and bounded out of the door. Mitch smirked and forced himself up to get into his bed.

Six months, the reality of it seemed so short. Six months where she was was the equivlent to about six hundred years. For all those years, it had been nothing but pain. Her screams filled the furnace like atomosphere as she was impaled, set aflame, or tossed into the ocean of fire. Her only thought was why did she deserve this? What had she done? But everytime she thought these questions the answers would slap her in the face as she relived the experience.

She was laying in the ocean of fire and the only thing she could do was scream while watching the skin melt off her body again. Her train of thought had long been gone, only trying to figure out why she was here and how to try to ignore the pain. Her arms were nothing more then melting bone when a hand grabbed her throat and pulled her from the ocean. The air seemed to cool down and she hit the ground, and for the first time in that seemingly six hundred years. No pain. She could think, she couldn't believe it. She looked at her skin and saw it was all back. "This one will probably be in use. Find the others."

Something rock hard gripped the back of her neck and pulled her to her feet. She was dimly aware she was in the clothes she died in. "But her in the cage with the others." She turned to face her captors and she gasped. They looked like people. All of them. But they're voices, sounded like many people talking. She was pushed forward until she was inside a stone cage. The demons locked the cell behind her and she looked at her inmates.

"No way" she gasped at the people before her.

"Hello Sakura" said the white haired man.

"Jiraiya-sama....."

Raigeki grinded his teeth as he stared at the sight before him. There was no way it was this fast. Neji looked just as distraught as himself. The only ones who looked impassively were Kisame, Juugo, and Suigetsu. Utikari was gone. Nothing more then burning corpses and buildings. It appeared they had just missed the deadline and they left. "Start a search, there may be some stragglers" Kisame said as they marched into the village. "When is Konoha suppose to show up?"

"Any moment from now" Kisame said. "We were slightly ahead of scheduale. Make sure none of the burning corpses are moving. Keep an eye out." It had been two days since they received the information from Danzou. They laughed at it mostly but then Suigetsu pointed out that it was Danzou, and he wasn't going to make some elaborate joke like that. They all grimly agreed to that before they arrived. Kisame gave them a nod, before they took off in diffrent directions. Unknown to them, a pair of eyes were watching.

Kisame landed in a pile of corpses and turned around. He had the feeling he was being watched but couldn't sense any chakra. Not liking where this was going, he readied his Samehada. There was no way he was going to be taken out by someone that was already dead. He thought he heard a woman laugh and he turned around quickly. Nothing. He groaned and kept moving forward, dreading each step.

Juugo was having a much harder time. He not only knew he was being watched but he was looking right at the person who was watching him. Although he tried to radio into his comrades, he found himself unable to move. The person was standing inside the fire and almost blended right in. The figure stepped out of the fire, wearing what appeared to be a red dress and red knee high boots. Her face and hair were wrapped in an orange veil, only her peircing blue eyes stood out. She took a step forward which made Juugo take a step back. 'What's happening' he thought. 'Why can't I control my body?' He felt his curse take over but he was still unable to move.

"What are you doing to me?" She remained silent as she strode over to him and traced the seal marks on his arm. "Hmm" she said. Her voice was smooth and seductive. Juugo felt like he was being sucked in. What was this woman?

"A nice power you seem to have here. You seem not to be affected by my flames" she stated stil tracing his arm. "Yes, I think you will be part of my personal army." Juugo tried to protest and move but the woman laid a glowing red hand over his face. It was warm and soothing at first but soon it felt like someone had stuck the hose to a vacuum cleaner down his throat. He screamed and felt like he was being ripped apart then as suddenly as the sucking feeling had started, it left, leaving him with a floating sensation.

Juugo opened his eyes and found himself in a red abyss. He couldn't move, only watch as him and a few others floated around in this endless red. Outside of this abyss, Juugo's souless body hit the ground. It twitched a few times before dying alone.

Naruto smelt the smoke before he actually saw the fire. Him along with his three nin landed on a branch that overlooked the ruins of Utikari. He heard Ino gasp when she saw the village. The other two remained silent. "Alright" the blond said. "We still have to go in and back up Akatsuki if the attackers are still in there. Suna should be here in a few hours." He jumped from the tree and hit the ground just below the outside wall. Pointing to Sasuke and Ino, he made a swirl motion with his hand, meaning they were going to go around then meet in the middle. They bounded away leaving Naruto and Lee. "I have a bad feeling about this" Naruto said. Lee nodded and jumped to the other side of the burning wall, Naruto quickly followed.

They both reached up and withdrew they're ninjato incase they were attacked. Taking a more covert approach then Akatsuki, they crept through the fires and ruined buildings. They both were happy they're outifts were completely fire and heat proof. It made a Katon jutsu ineffective. Naruto had the same feeling he had back in Konoha. Something bad was watching them, but he couldn't make anything out through the fire and rubble.

Lee's head perked up and pushed Naruto against a wall. Naruto cocked his head to the side, and Lee pointed around the corner of a partially destroyed building. He raised up three fingers and counted down. When he got to zero, they both whipped around the corner and helt their kunai to the persons throat. The person gave them a curious look before pulling his hands back, they looked down and saw that he had two kunai at their kidney's.

"Neji-san" Lee said harshly.

"Whats the status here Neji" Naruto stated more calmly then his partner. This was afterall the first time they had seen him since his defection. Lee had taken it pretty hard, especially with losing Gai. Neji gave them another odd look, obviously not reconizing they're voices. "So far no survivors, we're searching for any stragglers. Have you been breifed on the updated situation?"

"No, what happened?"

"Rain coroners have discovered that all the charred bodies found around have been dead for a year or more. Added onto that DNA tests they were all part of the village before they died" he explained. Inside the masks Lee and Naruto had paled faces. They both hated scary stories. "We've been unable to find any chakra saying these corpses have been raised from the dead by ninja. In my opinion we may be fight demons here."

"What makes you so sure" Lee asked. Neji shrugged, "Call it a hunch, there's been no chakra usage here. The amount of damage that was caused should have left some chakra residue if a human did it." Naruto concluded he had a point. Neji's opinion started to make sense because he was feeling the same way he did when the demons were around Konoha. "We'll join you in your search, if we don't find anything we have to pull back and alert Suna that the village has already been annihilated."

Neji nodded and they continued down the road. "So what are you guys anyway? I didn't see armor like that before I left."

"We're EAU. A special assault branch of ANBU. This war with Iwa is our test run and so far we're not doing that bad of a job proving our worth." Since this was a mission, and they were still technically enemies, Lee and Naruto couldn't reveal they're real identities to him. "Who heads the EAU unit?"

"Thats classified to anyone outside Konoha" Lee said. Naruto nodded and remained silent. He felt something close. If felt like something big was breathing down his neck. Then they heard a yell. "That sounded like Suigetsu" Neji said in alarm. The three of them turned and ran down the street. They were just about to round another corner when they heard another scream and water came flying from around the corner. In seconds and with a hiss, the water evaporated. The trio didn't need to be told what just happened and that Suigetsu was now dead. Naruto growled and hit the corner with intense speed. He flicked a kunai down the street only for it to hit nothing. "Shit" he said. "What ever got Suigetsu is gone now. I had a feeling there was still something here."

"Maybe we should all regroup and wait for Suna to show up" Neji suggested. "Suigetsu is no slouch in a fight. What ever did this to him was extremely powerful. We'd be better off in a large group." The EAU couldn't argue with this logic. They each radioed in to they're comrades to meet at the south entrance to the village and wait for back up from Suna.

But to the demoness inside the fire right next to them, it sounded like an all too perfect idea.

Mitch quietly made his way forward in the grass. He quietly thanked the army for teaching him some good stealth tricks. Not using chakra was the best way to not get detected. Most ninja use chakra to muffle they're footsteps but if they're opponent senses their chakra it gives away the position. He had been stalking his targets for the better part of a day. Two of them were Iwa nins while the other was from Kiri, and what worried Mitch the most was the large zanbatou on his back. Naruto had taught him that most Kiri nin were trained as swordsmen first and ninja second. Making them a feirce opponent. Kiri always trained with various weapons that fit their personality. Mitch hoped this guy really sucked using that thing.

They were currently camping out. The Kiri nin was on watch while the others slept. Mitch crept behind the Kiri nin and slipped into they're make shift camp. He pulled out explosive tags and put them on the tent lips of the Iwa nin, so if they woke up and opened the tents, they would explode. Reaching behind him, he pulled a kunai from his pouch. He spun it in his hand so he was holding the blade. So far the Kiri nin had no idea what was going on behind him. 'This is way too easy' Mitch though as he threw the kunai into the back of the nins head. He smirked as the body fell to the ground, but when it hit, the body turned to water.

'Shit! Mizu Bunshin!' He jumped into the air just as the two came out of their tents setting off the explosives. The explosions pushed Mitch higher into the air and he backflipped to land on a tree branch. He looked down and saw to charred remains of the Iwa nin. He looked around trying to spot the Kiri nin. Now it was a game of hide and go seek. The Kiri nin was giving off no signs of chakra anywhere. Mitch closed his eyes and listened, maybe he could pick him up moving in the grass or bring his blade out. All silence. 'What I wouldn't give for a pair of thermals right now' he thought. He listnened more closely and heard the sound of something whistling through air.

Mitch turned and saw the Kiri nin coming down on him, the blade coming down to cleave him down the middle. He jumped out of the way as the blade cut through the thick tree branch. 'Shit, he does know how to use it.' Silently cursing giving Naruto his only sword, he pulled out a kunai. He had to end this fast. The Kiri nin landed on a branch below him and looked up. "You think you can beat me with that?"

"I don't know but I'm going to try" Mitch replied with a smile. He had a small plan but he had to appear weak. Jumping down, he threw the kunai at the nin. Mitch smirked when the he dodged. The kunai lodged in the tree. Mitch flipped to avoid the swing from the zanbatou and grabbed the kunai, disappearing from sight. The Kiri nin growled and whipped his blade around to catch Mitch sneaking up behind him. Mitch ducked under it and received a punch to the face sending him plumeting through the leaves and to the ground. He hit hard and bounced in the grass before rolling to a stop. Mitch secretly smirked when the nin tried to end it fast by appearing over him and plunging the blade straight into Mitch's chest.

Mitch poofed from existance and the real Mitch stepped behind the nin and slit his throat. The man gurgled before falling to the ground, clutching at his neck trying to stop the bleeding. Mitch smirked and put his foot on the neck to cease the blood flow but to cause him to suffocate. He proceeded to toy with the man by letting him bleed out or face strangulation until he grew bored and left the man to die.

"Now for part two" he said to himself and pulled out the scroll Tsunade had given him. It was for when he completed the mission. He read the contents and smirked. "Promoted to jounin and I get to go provide back up for Naruto? Hm, sounds like my lucky day" he said sarcastically as he rubbed his sore jaw. He jumped into the trees and headed south west. "Hopefully they haven't gotten to the action yet."

The four EAU's stood quietly amounst the Akatsuki as they spoke. Neji explained how they believed Suigetsu was dead and that Juugo wasn't answering his radio. Sasuke stood still as he listen to the conversation. He had been friends with those two at one point. Hearing that Suigetsu was dead and Juugo was missing made him sigh.

Naruto stood firmly keeping an eye on Kisame. The history between the two was not well. He was not too happy to learn the shark man had killed Killer Bee. When he had to fight pass Kisame to get to Madara it had been a tough fight. Even with Sasuke's help.

"When is Suna getting here" asked Kisame towards Naruto. He shrugged.

"Hm your talkatvie" the blue man growled. Naruto just stared back towards him. "Either way, we cant wait all day for them."

"Good because they're already dead." said a female voice behind them. The group of seven turned quickly and found a lady in red stepping out of the fire. Naruto didnt waste anytime pulling out shuuriken and sending them in her direction. She side stepped and caught two stray ones on her finger tips. "Good try" she said before the melted around her hand. "Why do you ninjas always resort to violence first? It will only get you killed faster."

"Nobodies going to be killed here except you" Neji said slipping into a Juuken stance. Kisame nodded and drew his Samehada. "Be careful" Naruto said. "Somethings off about her. Be on your guard."

"Very perceptive Naruto" she said pointing at him. The Akatsuki looked at him funny before turning their attention back to the woman. "Such a man who has lost important people in his life. Never could sustain a father or father figure. When it is something every growing man needs."

"What do you mean" he questioned. The woman laughed and covered where her mouth would be. After a moment her foot raised and slammed on the ground. The others didn't feel the surge of demonic chakra but Naruto did. He felt a cooling sensation in his mind and he heard Kyuubi come in with a frantic voice. "Kit you have to get out of here! This is not your normal demon! She's high up in Hell. Get out-"

Before Naruto realized what happened the connection was severed, not be him or the Kyuubi. "I can't have you asking for hints from your tenet can I?"

The ground around her feet cracked open and collaspsed back into the ground. The group gasped when a set of hands grabbed the ledge. "No way" they heard Naruto whisper when the figure came out of the ground, followed by another. Both were men he had looked up to, and they were both dead. Danzou's information had been right after all. "Ero-sennin? Kakashi-sensei?" Both men looked at Naruto, he could see they're smiles. "I can't move" Kakashi said. He looked down and saw he was still in the same clothes when he died. Jiraiya tried to move but couldn't. "Whats going on" he growled. The demoness didn't answer as she moved to the next in the EAU line. "Uchiha Sasuke, the pain of fighting the wrongly accused. Killing the innocent."

"No..." Sasuke whispered as the ground fell apart and another figure stepped out. "Itachi......" The elder Uchiha looked at his brother full clad in his EAU armor, and his eyes filled with pride and tears. "Sasuke" he said quietly. "What's happening?"

"Rock Lee" she said moving on. "Losing the only man to treat you as an equal in the ninja world."

Lee said something incomprehesible as Maito Gai raised full form from the ground. "GAI-SENSEI!" The bowl cut man looked up and saw his student. "LEE!"

"GAI-SENS-"

"Alright enough of that" the woman said and it forced Gai's mouth shut. She moved on and looked at Ino. "Losing those you considered brothers in a time of war. They all died under your hands as you tried to heal them."

"Please no" Ino begged. "Let them rest!" Four pairs of hands came out of the ground and stood up. In they're prime stood, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, Inuzaku Kiba, and Sai. "We only thought these four would show up" she said earnestly. "We didn't prepare any of the Akatsuki's loved ones. Sorry."

"I'll live" said Raigeki launching forward with unnatural speed. His fist came mere inches from the woman's veiled face, when a fist slammed into his stomach and launched him back. Jiraiya stood transfixed at what happened. He didn't mean to punch the boy. His body reacted on its own. "What the hell is going on here?!"

The woman said nothing, "We still have to wait. Be patient."

"Who are we waiting for" Naruto roared. The woman giggled, "My fiance." The groups shared puzzled looks and the woman started to undo her veil. The orange cloth slid down her chest and to the ground to reveal a beautiful woman with black hair and peircing blue eyes. The only one who reacted was Ino. "No" she said. "Ho- How can you be here?"

"I see you know who I am? Been peeping around my future husbands mind have you?" Ino couldn't speak. Her mind was frozen on the woman infront of her. The revived people looked around and tried to figure out what was happening other than the fact that they were on the wrong side of this little fight. "Your Mitch's dead fiance, Jane" Sasuke's voice said finally. "Arent you."

"In the flesh" she said. Sasuke growled and drew his Kusanagi. He dashed forward only to have Itachi block his way. "Brother, get out of the way!"

"I cant!" Itachi tried to move but found his body unresponsive as he reached for a kunai. "I'm sorry Sasuke! I can't stop myself." Sasuke ducked under his brother and closed the distance between him and Jane. He thrust his blade forward towards her abdomen but a hand knocked the blade away and punched him back. Sasuke hit the ground and rolled to his feet, finding Kakashi giving him an apologetic look. Itachi's hand grabbed his collar and threw him back towards his fellow EAU.

"Damn it" Sasuke growled when he stood. "They cant control themselves, they're like puppet bodyguards. They'll attack when they get a command. I wasn't aware Mitch was going to be here?"

"Neither was I" Naruto said. "They can't be real can they? This defies everything. How can they be standing infront of us."

"Itachi-san" came a voice from next to them. They saw Kisame taking a step forward towards his former partner. "What are you doing? Step aside and let us kill this demon!"

"Kisame, I can't control my body, one minute we were in a cage in Hell, the next we're crawling out of a hole." he explained. "We're just as confused about this as you are." The others nodded in agreement. Most of them looked happy to see they're friends again but the fact they could not run and embrace them made the moment seem alot more unbearable. Jane yawned and stretched, "I hate waiting. Might as well watch a fight." The seven recently dead people went into offensive stances and drew weapons. There wasn't a command but the look in Jane's eyes said it all. Attack. There was screams of "No" from the attackers as they're bodies betrayed them and threw their kunai and shuuriken. Naruto and group stood in silence. They were all in a sense of shock of what had transpired. No amount of ninja training can help this moment.

All they thought was as the blades headed toward them were, 'How can this be happening?'

"Ninpou: Shuuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Another barrage of shuuriken came from the right of the burning village and knocked the attackers weapons from the air. Naruto turned his head and saw Mitch land by them. "Mitch" he said quietly. "Thank you."

"No problem" he said. Then he looked up towards the attackers. Naruto saw his eyes narrow as he looked upon Jane. The woman's mouth turned into a cocky grin. "Hi baby."

"Hello Jane." His voice stayed neutral. He knew something was off when he first arrived in the area. It was like he could feel her. Not who she was, but what she was. His neutral stare confused Jane momentarily. He was suppose to crumble at the sight of her, like she had thought. He was suppose to cry and welcome her, tell her how much he loved her. That wasn't happening. This Mitch was giving her the cold shoulder.

"How are you?"

"Could be better" he simply stated before his hands slipped into his pouch and gripped a kunai. Naruto grabbed his arm and held him still. "Those people should be dead Mitch. They should still be in the ground!"

"I know the feeling."

Ino stared at Mitch then looked back to Jane. How could he be acting so calm in this situation. She was literally having a coniption. Confusion reigned her body and it started to play with her head. "It's a psyche out" Rageki said. "She's using them against us. She knows we wont attack them and if we attack, one of us will become angry that we're attacking a loved one and attack us. She's trying to turn us against one another with them. I'm not even sure they're alive."

"They are" Kisame said. "Look at her and them. They are so close to that fire, they're sweating from the heat. She's fine indicating they're cells are giving off moisture. Dead bodies don't react that way. So these arent reanimated corpses. No wonder so many villages fell. This is just evil."

"Then what do we do" asked Sasuke. Mitch didn't spare a second going forward with his kunai. The others tried to get him to stop but he kept going. He was about to break the line towards Jane when a hand grabbed his foot from underground. "Shit" he said as he hit the ground. He turned around and froze at who was coming out of the ground, holding his ankle.

"Sakura......"

And the end! What will happen next? Keep reading I ain't tellin you. BTW I think I forgot to mention the songs that have been in the story so far. Incase you guys wanna know.

Such great heights- Iron and wine version

And in this chapter. The final massacre- Vader

I don't own them blah blah blah and anyother song but if I did, but if I did!

Till next time,
Bloody Rainy Day

PS: And I'm in charge of snacks, f**king, bulls**t.