D-Claimer: (walks away)...

"THE THREE REALMS TEAM VS. THE AKATSUKI TEAM!"

As soon as that was said there were three people already in the arena from the Akatsuki Team. The first one looked like a fish demon, yet he gave off an aura of a human. The next was a man with red eyes and black hair, an older replica of Sasuke with lines under his eyes. Finally the last member was a male that looked human enough with ice blue hair and pale skin. Even his abnormal eyes, that were an icy blue with no whites or pupils at all, could be passed for a human with a blood line, but what gave the demon away was the ice blue fox tail and ears. Each of the members had discarded their cloaks and hats before entering the ring.

"Wow, it looks like this team is already raring to go," Juri commented to the crowd. "Let's go to Koto to see if she has any information on these fighters while we wait for the others to come."

"Actually Juri this is one of the only teams that would give us information on themselves. The fish guy is Kisame Hoshigake, and for all of those humans out there that think he's a demon you're wrong. This guy is human. Next to him is Itachi Uchiha, apparently he is one of the strongest human from his team. Lastly is Banka Bim, an Ice Kitsune, and man is he hot, or should I say cold, in looks and attacks," Koto said as she read the information given to her from a card and flirting with the cute fox guy at the same time.

By that time the three members of the Three Realms Team were already out on the ring, still wearing their cloaks. It seemed that the team had picked the fighter wearing the silver cloak and the fighter wearing the black cloak, still carrying the sleeping fox, to be their fighters for the preliminary. Seeing that the two teams were ready, the announcers nodded their heads to one another as a signal.

"BEGIN!" the two yelled together.

Yet none of the fighters moved from their spots. They stood stock still staring at one another, at least that was what it looked like, but no one could be sure with the cloaked fighters because no one could see their eyes. Finally someone moved, more precisely the fox woke up. Giving out a big yawn that only a fox could, the fox looked around the ring and stopped when his eyes landed on the other team. Jumping out of the black cloaked fighter's arms, the fox stretched out and trotted over to the other team.

When the fox came close to the other group they all stiffened up, thinking that it would attack them, instead it went over to Banka's leg and rubbed itself against his leg begging for attention. Surprised the whole group looked curiously at the small creature before something clicked in their minds. Quickly looking up the two fighters in front of them were gone. Banka caught the sound of foot steps coming from behind them at a fast rate with his sensitive hearing and was about to worn his teammates.

"They-AAAAHHHHH," Banka screamed as sharp little fangs sank into his leg, courteous of the small forgotten fox at his feet. Startled by their teammates sudden pain filled screams Itachi and Kisame turned towards him only to be hurled in opposite directions by the forgotten fighters.

Cringing in pain as the fox continued to bite him; Banka tried to throw the fox off of him by swiftly jerking the leg the fox was attached to, back and forth. However, that only resulted in the little fox biting harder on his leg and sinking his claws into his leg so he wouldn't be thrown off. Changing tactics Banka sent a wave of ice throughout his own body to his leg where the fox was attached to. The skin around the fox started to change color to an unhealthy blue color, before the area that was being bitten was covered in ice.

Surprisingly the fox still clung onto the leg and Banka learned something new. Never, ever, form ice around an area that is being bitten, because if the fox is intelligent, like the fox that was biting him was, it would pull out its teeth to leave some open room in between the muscle and its teeth, but still inside of the skin, letting ice form around its teeth. Then with longer fangs, thanks to the ice that formed around the fox's teeth and the room in between the muscle and teeth, it would plunge them even deeper into the object it was biting.

Choking back a howl of pain, Banka picked up his other leg and kicked the fox as hard as he could in the stomach, sending the poor creature flying ten feet away from him, before it skidded another five feet till it finally stopped. After being harshly kicked and the wind knocked out of him, the small fox laid on the ground in a daze. When it finally could see only one Ice Kitsune coming towards him, the little fox tried to stand up, but only succeeded in falling back down, because his small paws gave out from underneath him, with a yelp of pain.

When Banka saw the little fox shakily stand up before falling down, a sinister grin appeared on his face and started to stock towards the small fox, like a predator hunting its prey. Stopping a few feet a way form the fox, Banka stomped the ground with the leg that had been bitten by the little rodent. The ice on his leg broke of into a thousand tiny pieces and the wound held instantly as a layer of ice started to spread out over the ring, freezing everything it touched.

As the yelp of pain came that came form the fox rang through out of the ring, the black cloaked figure turned his head quickly towards the fox to see him weakly fall onto the ground. Making a move to go and help the hurt fox, the cloaked fighter was stopped by a shuriken that went sailing dangerously close to his head. Turning his head he looked at the panting Itachi with sweat running down his face.

"Your fight is with me!" Itachi said with a smirk on his face and threw another shuriken at his opponent. This time the shuriken just ripped another one of many gashes and cuts in the cloak that he had on, but yet no blood was drawn nor was he winded at all like Itachi. Shrugging his shoulders the fighter continued to dodge everything that was thrown at him. Suddenly something caught his eye and he jumped up into the air. Itachi thinking he got him went to throw a barrage of kunai at him when something cold crossed his feet. Looking down he saw a layer of ice starting to form around his feet and creep up his legs. Hastily Itachi formed hand seals as fast as he his hands would allow and performed a Katon Jutsu to melt the ice that was incasing him.

When the yelp of pain from the fox reached his ears, the silver cloaked fighter jerked his head towards the sound to see ice start to incase the small fox's feet and going up his legs. Calculating a plan as the fish man started to bring his sword down on top of his head; the fighter smirked as the sword was an inch away from his head. The giant sword cut through the cloak and the fighter easily. In fact it cut through the fighter to easily and there was no cry of agony.

Looking up at the person he supposedly cut in half; Kisame saw that he had not cut through the fighter, but just a silver cloak without anyone inside of it. Frowning he looked around for his opponent to find him, battling Banka. Getting mad that his, his damn it, opponent fighting with the newly recruited fox demon. Kisame started to make his way over to them, only to hear a crack that sounded like glass breaking. Looking down he saw that his foot had been frozen to the ground and ice was slowly snaking its way up his waist. Before he had anytime to react to the situation the ice had completely incased him.

Not noticing that his own attack had frozen his own teammate, Banka continued on fighting with the kitsune, the Silver Kitsune, which had appeared in front of him. Hell, he thought that by now all the Silver Kitsunes would be extinct, along with the Elemental Kitsunes. Though he stood corrected, in front of him was probably the last Silver Kitsune, even if he was just part Silver since he looked like he was a mix between a Red and Silver Kitsune, alive and, damn, he was good. He had somehow stopped the ice from fully incasing the small kitsune, but hadn't had the time to free the kitsune; he had made sure of that and almost lost one of his ears.

How was he supposed to know that Silver Kitsunes had power over plants? Didn't only Earth Kitsunes and Elemental Kitsunes have the power over plants? Well apparently he had been wrong, and why was a simple rose so deadly? Maybe he should have listened to his father when he was teaching him about the different types of kitsunes. Remembering what his father said about kitsunes, Banka found that something didn't add up right. All kitsunes, without a doubt, were loyal to the crown; so why was this one fighting with the people that killed the Kyuubi no Kitsune? Why wasn't he helping the Akatsuki punish the people for killing the King of Demons and save the Kyuubi's heir? There were just so many questions and not enough answers and he'd be damned sure he was going to get them.

Studying the kitsune to get a better idea of his ability, Banka took note of every little feature about the kitsune. The Silver had straight silver hair mixed with red and his ears were silver tipped with red a long with his tail. His eyes were a light, light green with a golden sheen to them. He, like all kitsunes, was very fine and elegant looking. Finally, in his hand was a long thorned whip that had been a red rose at one point.

Forming his own whip, made out of ice that bended, Banka charged at the unknown kitsune, giving attack for attack, block for block. Seeing an opening in the Silver's defense he sent an attack towards the unprotected area, yet the Silver blocked it. Though with every action there is always a price that has to be paid, the price that the Silver paid was that his whip, as well as Banka's own, were caught up in each other's. Both stubborn kitsunes held tight to their weapons and glared at the other. Finally, Banka had to get some answers and broke the silence, but not the glaring contest.

"Why are you helping the enemy?" Banka growled out.

"Why am I helping the enemy? Why are you helping the enemy?" the Silver retorted, surprised at his question.

"I'm not helping the enemy you are!" Banka snarled at him, disgusted with the fact that he was being accused of helping the ones that killed the Kyuubi and wanted to kill his heir in the tournament.

"You've been fooled," the Silver came to the conclusion.

"How did you come up with that? Konoha was the one that KILLED THE KYUUBI NO KITSUNE, THEY KILLED OUR KING!" Banka's voice rang throughout of the coliseum like thunder. The demons in the crowd that had been previously cheering for the Three Realms Team fell silent at the revelation. Every demon had known that the Kyuubi was killed, murdered while going to go see his daughter and grandson since that was all he could talk about for months, but no one knew who actually killed him.

"I know that Kyuubi's BODY was SEALED by the Yondaime of Konoha, but they DIDN'T KILL Kyuubi!" the Silver replied feverishly. "Kyuubi was already DEAD by the time the last seal was complete."

"They've got you brained wash then, to make you believe that bullshit," Banka responded without any hint that he was mad at all.

"They didn't tell me anything, I was there when it happened," the Silver said as he started to glow. The red in his ears, tail, and hair started to fade away to nothing and the green in his eyes was over taken by the gold, leaving a full Silver Kitsune in its stead.

"Yoko Kurama," Banka said in awe instantly recognizing the best friend of the King of Demons.

"Would you fucking quit moving!" Itachi growled out as the black cloaked fighter dodged another attempt at an attack. So far all they had done was play a game of cat and mouse. The tricky son of a bitch had dodged every one of his attacks without a scratch on him, though his cloak had gotten cut, burnt, and tattered, but that was it and it was getting on Itachi's last nerves. At one point the had even tried to his the ultimate Sharingan, but either the guy knew what it was and didn't look at it or he was immune to it, which wasn't even possible in Itachi's mind, so it had to be the first one.

The man gave off a deep laugh and began to taunt him, "Is the almighty Itachi getting frustrated?"

Growling, Itachi sent another wave of flaming shurikens and kunais at the man, yet in the back of his head there was a small voice insisting he knew that voice. The little voice insisted that he knew that voice, all too well, but his mind couldn't put a name with the voice. For a second he flirted with the idea that it was his little brother, but there were two reasons it couldn't be him. First off, from a reliable source he learned, his brother went missing two months, ago along with the rest of his team and the other demon vessel. Secondly the voice sounded more feral than his brother's voice ever did.

As Itachi was flirting with the idea that the cloaked fighter was his brother, said fighter was rolling his eyes knowing what Itachi was thinking about. Deciding that the little game had gone on long enough, and noticing that Yoko was explaining what was going on to Banka while his fox was still trapped in the ice trying to gnaw his way out of it, he let the incoming flaming ball of fire to massacre his cloak. When Itachi noticed that one of his attacks finally had hit the fighter, an evil smirk formed on his lips. Though it didn't stay long when he realized that he had only burned a cloak and not the person inside of the cloak.

Frantically looking around for the fighter, he suddenly felt an unbearable pain in his stomach before flying through the air. Landing and skidding to a stop, Itachi rolled over to his side, and leaning on his elbow, coughed up blood. Looking toward the direction he came from and vaguely wondering how the person got in front of him and punched him so hard without seeing the fighter. Though when he saw the fighter, standing there without a care in the world, his eyes widened to impossible sizes.

The man, no teen, in front of him stood tall and proudly for all to see and had a feel of superiority just radiating off on him. Hair even blacker than his own fell into the teen's coal black calculating eyes. Pale skin glowed in the sun with no marks marring its beauty. A smirk of amusement graced the teen's face as well as letting a fang rest on top of his lower lip and clawed hands were crossed in front of him. Pointed ears and a beautiful tail, the same color of his hair, told everyone that this was not a human, like they thought, but a demon. The only thing that suggested that the demon wasn't from Makai, like other demons, was the shinobi clothes that he wore with the symbol of the Uchiha Clan on the back.

"What's wrong brother? Surprised? Scared?" the demon asked as his tail swayed back and forth behind him in pleasure of seeing his brother so scared. When Itachi didn't answer his question, but continued to stare at him, a smirk that sent chills down everyone's spins formed on his lips. "You should be."

With that Sasuke disappeared in a furry of speed.

"SASUKE!" surprised voices throughout the room for the Three Realms Team's guests.

"Go Sasuke, you can beat that bastard," Botan cheered at the same time as Yukina and Keiko looked at her, can't believing her actions.

"I was wondering when he was going to reveal himself," the teenage Koenma pondered out loud gaining the Konoha's group attention. Noticing that the group was looking at him in shock, Koenma quickly explained to them that this was another thing he knew, but couldn't tell them. They would have to ask Sasuke himself what was going on and he couldn't tell them where he was or where the others were either. When they finally quit breathing down his neck, he settled himself back down and continued to try and watch the tournament. However, he was drawn into a memory of just resent times.

Flashback

After the group of demons and shinobis had untangled themselves and other things went by a thought suddenly struck Koenma. Remembering the promise he made to the two loyal departed spirits of the dead, he looked to the two young human shinobis. Clearing his throat he got the others attention and wondered what they would do when they do when they found out. Pushing that thought to the side, Koenma pushed a little button on his desk before turn towards the awaiting group.

"Sasuke, Sakura," Koenma said formally addressing the two, "I made a promise to a few people and I actually never thought that this would happen but it did, so I'm going to keep my promise."

With that said the doors to his office flung open and two people made their way into the room. The first was a tall man with green eyes and brown hair. He was extremely tan and wore shinobi clothes, yet he had pointed ears and no pupils. Next to him was a woman with jet black hair and coal back eyes. The woman looked small next to the man but she was almost as tall as Kakashi and wore the same exact outfit as Kakashi, but without the mask, vest, and slanted hitai-ate and the symbol for a fan done in red and white was on the back of her shirt. She looked like a human to, if it wasn't for the fangs in her mouth, claw like nails, pointed ears, and the tail twitching behind her.

"SAKURA!" the man screamed when he saw her. Running over to her he scooped her up into a giant bear hug.

"Dad!" Sakura gasped out.

"Mom!" Sasuke asked surprised and when she nodded her head confirming his question. Launching himself at the women, he too gave her a giant bear and snuggled into her arms. "Mom, I missed you so much."

"I know. I know," Sasuke's mother said soothing the boy in her arms as she petted his hair. "I've missed you too."

"Umm not to be rude or anything, but how are they your children you two are a Darkness Wolf Demon and a…Nature Spirit, if I'm correct, and both of them are humans?" Yusuke asked bluntly.

"Actually that's what we're here for," said Sakura's dad as he set Sakura down on the group. "But to understand it you must know the whole story. You see Kyuubi no Kitsune entrusted us to take care of his daughter and to do that we had to go into hiding in a human village, which required us to seal the princess's demon powers and looks, as well as our own, to pass for a human. When we were in the village, which was a whole different than what she was use to, we did everything in our power to keep the princess safe and happy there."

"She was quite happy when we introduced her to a young boy by the name of Arashi Kazama," Sasuke's mother, Mikoto, said with a fond smile on her face and her arm wrapped around Sasuke's shoulders. "She soon forgot that we were only there to keep her safe and not to live, but we didn't care as long as she was happy we wouldn't break those two up. However, we were lonely ourselves and kept that fact hidden form the princess as best as possible, but she found out anyway. She soon set Jinenji up with a nice human girl and me with a man that had recently lost his wife and needed help carrying for his son."

"So that's why Sasuke smells different from Itachi," Naruto said softly to himself, but everyone still caught it. Detecting that everyone was looking at him, Naruto gave a small blush and looked down at the ground with his hair coving his eyes and his ears dropped down. "Sorry."

Chuckling Mikoto shock her head, "It's alright. But, yes, that is why they don't smell alike, their half-brothers."

"Getting back to the story," said Jinenji, clearing his throat and having the attention focused on him. "Soon I got married followed by Mikoto and after her, the little princess. Each of us having our own children and binding their demon side, or in my case Nature Spirit side. We were actually there when the princess was having the baby, but not in the same room since we weren't family. By the time we got to see her, her kit had already had its demon side sealed and Arashi had taken him to seal Kyuubi into. We were going to stop him, but the princess needed us and we stayed with her until she died. After that we ran as fast as we could to stop Arashi, but it was too late." Sighing at the memory, Jinenji forced himself to go on. "After that we vowed to protect the princess's kit with our lives."

"But we had to do it from afar so that we wouldn't attract attention to ourselves. The rest you all already know," Mikoto said with a forced smile. Then a real smile crossed her face. "However, that's not why we're here. We're here to release the seals to let our children's true power out."

From then on out everything went by like a blur as they all tried to get ready for the unsealing ceremony and talking while doing so. When they were finally ready the only thing that was worth remembering was the bright flashes of before as the seals were released that came from underneath the two.

End Flashback

Coming back into focus of his surroundings, Koenma saw that Sasuke was busy fighting his half-brother, while it seemed like Yoko Kurama and Banka, along with the now free little fox, had figured out what was really going on and were sitting down in the middle of the ring talking with each other happily, not the least bit bothered by the fighting going on around them.

Jumping out of the way of Itachi's wildly thrown punch, Sasuke sent a punch of his own at his chest, but at the last second Itachi threw up his hands in a crossed fashion in front of his chest to block the on coming punch. Still the force of the punch sent the older Uchiha skidding back. Regaining his bearings, Itachi charged at Sasuke and set a kick towards his head. Seeing the kick heading towards him the young wolf demon used his right hand to grab it right before it made contacted with his head. Smirking, Sasuke grabbed the leg with both hands and started to swing the Akatsuki member around by his leg before letting him go and watching him soar over the top of the kitsunes' heads.

Feeling a breeze over head Banka turned toward Yoko Kurama with the little kit sleeping in his lap. "Nice weather we're having isn't it?"

"I would have to agree," the Silver Kitsune said nodding his head in agreement as another breeze blew as the same body soared over their heads for the fifth time. Looking down at the fox in his lap he scratched its ear and smiled when the fox gave out a low purr. "And I think Kit thinks so too."

"You've really trained that fox well for a normal fox," commented Banka as a flaming ball of fire passed inches form their heads.

"You'd be surprised," Yoko Kurama said cryptically.

Holding a kunai up to his brother beaten and battered body's neck, Sasuke had an indescribable look on is face. His breathing was barely abnormal and had barely any blood from his own wounds on him. Though the ones he did have hurt like hell since his salty sweat ran down his boy. Itachi, on the other hand, was breathing raged and blood was everywhere. Looking Sasuke straight in the eye, a silent conversation between the two went on. It only ended when Sasuke cut his brother's throat open and Itachi fell backwards with a smile on his face for the first time since he killed his family.

"WINNER BY TWO DEATHS! THREE REALMS TEAM! NEXT MATCH THREE REALMS TEAM VS. THE SOUND TEAM!"

I would like to thank NarutoNineTails again for the characters that, they really came in handy. Also I would like to thank my new beta for getting this back to me so quickly, thank you Sufinkusu.

With so little review my insperation is dieing down, but I will go on for the ones that do give me review. However my chapters will becoming out slower... STILL Thank all of you who do review and give comments, it gives me ideas and helps my writting get better. Thank you loyal readers.

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