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Chapter Cover: Sakura looking up and Soya looking down and the triangular eye of the Haruno clan in the background.

CHAPTER FOURTY-ONE

Uneasy confrontation

Sakura and companion were taking a break at night. It's been a couple of hours since they have once again lost Sasuke's trail and it was frustrating to say at least. The house Yamato-tashou had grown out of the ground was confortable to say at least but she wasn't confortable at all. The unseasy feeling that something bad was going to happen was growing on her mind eversince Payne had left them earlier today so that she can rejoin her team.

I need some air, she though before stepping outside.

The moon was shining, bathing the surrounding in a silvery light and the stars were quite bright. Sakura looked toward them thinking about Sasuke wondering if he was alright and also, about Jack the somewhat friend he was before he joined Akatsuki…

"Evening, Sakura," a voice said.

She willed around to find a woman seating on the railing of the house looking up at the moon. She has long red hair which ended in spike and she was dressed in civilian clothing but Sakura knew that that woman was nothing but. The woman looked toward her and Sakura feel her breath quicken…

A glowing slitted amber eye was gazing at her, and a smile smirk was on the woman's face.

"You seems surprised?"

"Who are you?"

"Moi," the woman said pointing at herself as if surprised Sakura asked, "I'm called Soya."

"How did you know who I was?"

"That's the question," Soya whispered, "Don't worry girl, I come in peace. I've heard quite a lot about you Sakura, but are you related to Tomari by any chance?"

A look of surprise crossed Sakura's face. "How did you know my mother's name?"

"I knew her," Soya said while she looked toward the moon once again, "She was quite a girl when she was young, a tomboy but a good heart and I was quite sadden when she suddenly decided to leave the village. I never knew what had happened to her until I heard of you"

A hand fell on Sakura's shoulder and she looked there to see Soya as she continued to talk, "I swear you look just like her except more feminine than she was, but I didn't come here to bring memories of the past I've come to talk to you about Jack."

"How do you know Jack?"

Soya smirked at that, "Let's just say I'm the one he is hunting to kill."

Sakura glared at the woman who let out a small laugh, "Don't give me that look, I didn't tell him to deflect from his village did I? I didn't drove him to the edge of his mind making him believe that the only way he could go after me is to become like me? No Sakura, you're accusing me of the wrong things."

"How did you…?"

"Know what you were thinking?" Soya finished for her, "I could tell what was in your mother's mind most of the time, why should you be any different?"

Sakura stayed silent at that observing the woman.

"Why are you here?"

"I've told you before," Soya said looking at her, "I've come to talk about Jack."

"Why?"

"Jack had been alone for most of his life," Soya said, "even with Payne and Sava with him as a team and the Godaime Taiyoukage, Claire Fox, no once could understand Jack's pain. Maybe some can relate to it, but no one can understand it, but somehow…"

"Maybe if someone was with him he wouldn't have joined Akatsuki," Sakura snapped at her.

"Did you ever bother what happened to the Haruno clan?" Soya asked her, "Have you ever wondered why your mother had left Taiyou years before you were born?"

"I've…"

But Sakura couldn't come up with any answer as uneasiness started to creep into her system. It's been a long time since she stopped asking about the Haruno clan, but what did that woman in fron of her know? After all she was the one to make Jack deflect from the village.

"It's surprising what you don't know can make you do," Soya said walking down the place and to Sakura's surprise, her footsteps didn't even break the silence, it was as if she was gliding down the veranda.

"You told me before that you didn't make Jack leave? Who did?"

A strange silence went through them.

"Who did indeed," Soya said, "I'm not sure you would even believe me if I told you, but then again, Jack is much more like me than I though standing by himself against the world."

"Jack is not like you," Sakura snapped, "I don't want him to walk the same path as Sasuke."

"Revenge is such a strange thing isn't it," Soya said, her lone eye boring into Sakura's green ones, "Even the most honored people could be driven by madness with just a little push in the right direction."

"What did you do?" Sakura asked as she tightened her fists.

"I didn't do anything," Soya said, "but someone sure did."

"Who?"

"Why are you asking me," Soya said as she jumped on the railing and seated there, "Isn't there someone else you would like to talk to to get your answer?"

Sakura didn't do anything as she tried to understand what Sava was talking about.

"You should understand that Jack wanted to learn about his clan as much as any of us could do, but the darkness grows even on the more sunlight place…"

Suddenly wood grew out of the ground and tightened around Soya's body keeping her in place, and she looked at it disinterested with it.

"Wood jutsus eh," she said, "So the Shodai Hokage's line lived."

"Who are you?" Yamato asked as he appeared behind Soya along with Kakashi, Naruto,Sai and Kiba with Hinata.

"Wow, a full Konoha platoon," Soya said, "You just have to but in into a converstation two women are having aren't you? What happened to something called respect."

"I was wondering why I shouldn't kill you right now," Kakashi said, his eye cold.

"You don't have the guts to kill me Kakashi," Soya said, glaring at him, "If you did I wouldn't be standing right now do I, but even so, I'm more than enough for the full of you."

"How come I don't sense any chakra from you?" asked Yamato.

"That' because I don't use chakra," Soya said, "You've got a Hyuga with you, why don't you find out?"

"Hinata,"

"Right," Hinata said, "Byakugan."

She was starring at Soya's body but couldn't see her chakra coals, what she saw what something far, far more worse than she expected. A creature that she had no name for was standing in Soya's place, and it was controlled but Hinata could see that it didn't like it.

"W…What on earth…?"

"Hinata what is it?" Naruto asked.

"She don't have any chakra system," Hinata said, "she got a creature living within her."

"You mean like a Jinchurikin?" Sai asked.

"No," Hinata said, "It was as if the creature was her but at the same time wasn't."

"Very good Hyuga," Soya grinned, "That is my Youkai and he want me to kill you all, but I don't want to cause a mess, Jack is the same, his just awoken so it won't be as dangerous as mine."

Sakura made a invonlontary movememt and Soya said, "You won't have to worry Sakura, yours is dormant so it won't awoken within you, then reason why is because of your eyes since all that have Youkai's blood within them, their eyes become fire colored, Amber."

"Why are you here?" Naruto asked.

"I came to talk with Sakura," Soya said, "but since you lot butted in I don't have to finish what I have started, no chivalry these days."

"Wait," Sakura said, "Who was the one that made Jack turned against us?"

"Sorry can't tell you that," Soya said, "But he is the leader of the Akatsuki, and his goal is far worse for the entire world, and even with Seven of the Tailed Beasts, he can awoke something powerful enough to destroy the way of life as you know it."

"What are you talking about?"

"Armaggedon is coming," Soya said, "The end of the shinobi era."

A full silence descended on them as they all starred at Soya as if she was crazy but her face was pure seriousness that the atmosphere feel…heavy.

"The end of the era," Kakashi said, "What make you think so?"

"It means everyone will be killed by the fires of the Angel of Fire," Soya said.

"The angel of Fire?" Yamato repeated.

"I'm sure you all felt the tremor when Bird Country was almost obligatered," Soya said, "That means the Angel had awoken, the raw power that could match the most fearsome creature in the world, but it alls depend on his choices whether he choose to destroy the world or to save it."

"You talk as if you know him?" Sakura said.

"I do know him," Soya said as she starred straight at Sakura, "You do as well."

Sakura looked at her puzzled but Soya said, "Now I gotta go, my partner is getting kinda lonely."

All the ninjas, except Sakura made a move to stop her but Soya simply disappeared like a ghost.

"I can't see her," Hinata said as she looked around with her Byakugan.

"Can't get a scent either?" Kiba said as he sniffed the air.

"Who was she?" asked Yamato looking at Sakura.

"Soya Haruno," Sakura said looking at Yamato.

"Is she related to you like Jack is?"

"I'm not even sure what to make of them anymore," Sakura said.

Naruto looked at Sakura and walked away from the entire group. He had seen the woman, Soya Haruno looking at him when she was talking about the Angel of Fire's power…

Could they really be something as powerful as Fureball out there, he though to himself

&&&

"So we are taking a break in this place," Yugito said as she lay on the bed.

Jack was standing there looking at the window, thinking about what the Seven-Tails look like. He knew it was a girl but something seemed off about things. He had a bad feeling of some kind that was growing since him and Yugito had arrived in Taki, yesterday and it unnerved him to no end.

"Jack, what are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing," Jack answered looking toward her, "Yugito, I'm on some info search. Be back later."

Yugito nodded.

Jack walked out of the room, not really thinking about anything as he continued toward the place he was going to and arrived at the counter.

"Well, Jack you've been busy."

He turned around at the voice and facing him was a spiral-orange mask.

"You…?"

Madara walked toward him and stepped at his side.

"They've been a change of plans," he said, looking toward Jack, "I'll be going after the Seven-Tails. You, Jack will go after the Two-Tails since you already have her in your company."

Jack's hand went toward his sword but Madara grabbed his hand.

"You've been lying to me all along, double-crossing the rest of the Akatsuki into believing into someone else involvement with the Jinchurikin" Madara said, "You will be the one to bring the Two-Tails to me for the sealing."

"Over my dead body," Jack hissed at him.

Madara let out a small chuckle at that, and Jack feel his body being compressed from all side and next thing he knew his back was slammed into a tree.

"Space and Time jutsu," he whispered.

"You really think I didn't notice your movements," Madara said, his voice calm but Jack can hear the barely controllable fury within it, "I have told you before that your ring is connected to my chakra, and for a couple of while your chakra vanished from the world and reappeared a couples of days later, and since you've finally awoken your Youkai chakra, you will become the weapon you were born to be."

Suddenly Madara's eye changed into a new bladed sharingan with three rings where the tomoes should have been and in the middle of the lines joining the rings a straight line grew out of it.

"I've used these eyes to tame the strongest beast in history," Madara said, "And you're no different."

"W…what?"

"Eternal Mangyekou Sharingan: Total Control"

Jack feel like a thousand knives were stabbing into his mind as he yelled out in pain and was straining against Madara's grip but with no aval and he falls on his knees.

Breathing heavily, Madara looked at Jack who was on the ground, his head bowed, his hair falling forward, covering his right eye. A minute of silence go by and Madara said, "Who does you serve?"

"Madara-sama," Jack said in a monotone voice.

"Stand up,"

Jack obeyed and looked toward Madara who was putting his mask back on.

"I'll be taking care of the Seven-Tails," Madara said, "Bring the Two-Tails to the location in Rain Country."

"As you wish Madara-sama," Jack said, his eyes devoid of emotions.

With that he vanished.

Madara stayed there for a while before grinning beneath his mask.

Do it like the lab rat you are Jack, he though before he used his space-time jutsu to disappear.

Well, that wasn't good was it? Now Jack's under Madara's control for how long? and Soya had told them part of Madara's plan for Jack and now it all come back to the half-Youkai boy, keep it up next time for 'The Angel Vs the Cat'

R&R

A/N: Please review so i can get some motivation. you'll get a digital Wii for it.

Jacques0 out.