Welcome back my dear readers. I heeded your advice and got myself a beta by the name of Danni Lea. This for all you who wants a better read. So enjoy. As well as receiving a brand spanking new office 07 from my pop…

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"Bold" – jutsus being announced

"Bold Italic" – demon lord speech/ inner persona

'Normal' – thoughts

"Normal" – humans/ minor demons speech

Let's go…

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Chapter Fourteen

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The Konoha's third training grounds are a typical example of a practice area. Taijutsu logs assembled in the clearing allow young Genins to practice their techniques or for Jounin instructors to tie the little brats up for being stupid. For now three of the most promising shinobi Konoha ever produced is having a stare down against one of its more infamous nin, the Copy Ninja. A soft wind blows through as the tensions mounts, the bells on Kakashi's belt give off a soft chime…

Natsumi ended the silence, "It's been a while since we've been here…I missed it…" crossing her arms and staring up the sky with nostalgic smile on her face. This is the first time she truly made friends her age, Sasuke and Sakura. She grimaced slightly thinking about how her relationship with Sakura went down the pits on that fateful day yet her determined spirit, her most prominent feature refused to let it end like this, 'I'll just have to try again!' her eyes lit with fire as she faced her sensei.

Sasuke smirked softly as the memories of team 7 floated into his mind. The temporary distraction he needed so much in those dark days, where vengeance was his fire. Slowly, but surely, he changed for the better as his daily misadventures with his team gave him the childhood he sorely missed after the massacre. His hardened features softened slightly as the familiar feel of being with his team started to slowly sink in.

Sakura too was reflecting on those wonderful years. About Sasuke and Naruto…She mentally shook her head as she eyed the blonde vixen with seething anger, 'No Naruto's dead and a demon is in his place.' Assuring herself that she made the right choice she turned his attention back to her ex-sensei.

Kakashi huffed proudly as he eyed his former charges. He slowly puts away his book in his weapon pouch. His actions were not unnoticed by the other shinobi present.

"What? No book this time sensei?" Natsumi asked mockingly as she slowly let loose all her limits. Excitement leisurely crawled it's way through her system making her a little…mischievous. She crouched slightly her right hand outstretched and pulled back as if representing claws ready to strike while her left hand was hanging slightly off the ground. Her legs were parted with her right foot forward ready to pounce.

Sakura raised a delicate pink brow, "You finished it already?" going into a stance, standing up slightly with her right side facing Kakashi while her right hand rose in a chopping position and her left ready to pull out any weapon from holster.

Sasuke, the ever talkative one, just raised a brow in interest as he went into the classic Uchiha interceptor stance, with a twist of his own. His legs were ready to move at a moments notice, the signature of Orchimaru's taijutsu. In order to adapt both Uchiha style of Kakashi and Hebi style of Anko he developed an experimental hybrid that in theory maximized both styles strengths by combining flexibility of the Hebi with the counter punching ability of the Interceptor.

Kakashi chuckled slightly he replied, "No, not yet, I'm saving it for later. But right now I have a feeling that I should take this a little bit more seriously." He slowly pulled up his hitai-te revealing the eye that made him so infamous, the one who gave birth to the Copy ninja, his Sharingan that he received when he became a true shinobi of Konoha…

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Deidara was slightly worried. He indeed had come under prepared for his fight against the Kazekage. Along with those anti-air ballista and wind jutsu that were waiting to rain down on him. All in all, things were looking grim for the fair-haired bomb artist.

'But that doesn't mean I can't win, un,' he thought with a smirk as Gaara sent pillars of azure tattooed sand towards him at frightening speeds, 'That sand is fast, very fast. Not only does it block almost all of my attacks instantly but it's just as fast when on the offensive, if my crushed hand is any indication, un.' He dodged them quickly on his clay bird he reached in his clay pouch and pulled out a small clay bird statue with its wings wrapped around it, 'All I have left is this homing bird and my specialty number 18, un.'

Meanwhile down below Baki and Kankuro were watching helplessly. Baki broke the silence, issuing commands to the rest of the shinobis to finish the preparation for helping Gaara. He slowly faced Kankuro with a grim expression and said, "Kankuro…consider the idea of Gaara going berserk as well the appearance of Shakaku."

Kankuro faced his ex-sensei with a hardened face. His eyes filled with assurance he calmly spoke, "That...won't happen. Gaara will not harm the people of this village." He thought back to that time when he and Gaara spoke in the desert sunset. He smiled as he recalled those words that Gaara spoke to him that day. The day where he was sure the monster of sand was gone and his brother returned. He smiled proudly knowing he was one of those Gaara confided his dream even before he stood in those robes. He let out a yell, "DO YOUR BEST KAZEKAGE-SAMA!!"

Gaara's stone set expression did not twitch but his eyes tell it all. He was going to crush the man in front of him to protect his home, as his duty as Kazekage. His shadowed face from within his sand cocoon was enough to scare most opponents at this very moment. He frowned slightly as his foe suddenly stopped moving began to shift through his equipment and pulled out something like an inverted missile, 'This won't be good,' he thought.

In the back of his mind, Shakaku couldn't help but agree, 'Whatever this human is trying to do it won't be good. Let me out so I'll fight him. I'll show his little organization not to mess with the Tailed Overlords of Makai!' she yelled behind the worn bars of her cage to her tired container. (Yes, I'm making Shakaku a girl in this story)

Deep inside the darkness of the cage where normally a giant tanuki would be seen was a girl who looked no older than 16. She had short wind swept sandy brown hair that reached mid neck and pointed elfin ears hidden below her curls. She was wearing a yellow kimono with blue vein like patterns that opened up to her legs and sleeves that seem to be torn from the wind to allow freedom of movement. It did very little to hide her subtle curves. Her golden star shaped pupils glint malevolently inside the cage as she watched from within her container.

'Shakaku-san, we need to focus on the task ahead. I need chakra so please back to the task at hand if you will,' Gaara spoke to the demon lord. The demon lord scoffed and silently retreated from his conscious mind. His attempts to rescue Natsumi that day lifted the madness of the demon queen, as the Kyuubi's violent youki ate away the soul of the mad priest that occupied the dominant her part of her mind when he forced his sand to carry Natsumi as well as lifting her to the tower. That is why his sand acted funny that day, the soul of the priest sensed his just demise. Afterwards their relationship was somewhat civil where both parties agreed to make their lives more hospitable. Sensing an opportunity, he had asked his demon why was the priest was there. All he got was a face full of sand and a somber tanuki. He hadn't tried since…

He mentally shook his head. Now is not the time for such things. He needed to focus on this fight. Just as he was about to summon his demon's power the Akatsuki spoke up, "You know…to be stopped from below would really put me into a bad mood. That and that expressionless face of yours." He pumped chakra into the doll making enlarge and come alive as it spread it wings and faced Gaara. Deidara then smirked and gestured to his doll, "So…I'm going to destroy this town, un!"

To Gaara and Shakaku's shock and horror, he dropped it below to the unsuspecting village of Suna. A good part of the village will be destroyed if that thing detonates so the two immediately set to work as they summoned the sand of the vast dessert around them. Gaara gritted his teeth as he urged the sand faster, 'Please…make it in time.'

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Natsumi was getting impatient she quickly released her genjustsu, surprising both Sakura and Kakashi. Letting her hanyou features work to their fullest potential, seamlessly she unsealed several shuriken from her cloak and hurled them with frightening accuracy towards Kakashi's head.

Chucking it up as a side effect of the seal Kakashi, though he'll ask Hokage-sama about it later, immediately went into battle mode. Using the abilities of the Sharingan he easily avoided the shuriken by ducking low while launching several stars of his own.

She leaped into the air to avoid the attack but only to get caught in the follow up assault that she cannot avoid due to being in midair. Her gaze unwavering she rolled into a ball and began to spin, her tail and hair forming the rim as she rotated even faster. She pumped youki into every strand of hair gathering bluish flames around her. She was transformed into rolling ball of flames that she called out, "Goukarin!"(1)

The heat and velocity of the wheel melted and knocked the shuriken off course before landing on the ground. She jumped out of the rolling flames letting it grind into the ground before speeding off towards Kakashi covering everything in its path in flames.

Knowing it was pointless to counter with a water jutsu he used his greater speed to maneuver out of the way using the battle version Shunshin. He was undoubtedly impressed and a bit scared as he was thinking, 'To able to use fox fire…I didn't think sensei's seal was so advanced.' Deciding to be more cautious the next time Natsumi uses demonic arts, he reappeared behind her grabbing her into an arm lock just like her first test, only to have the clone's tail wrap around him securely while the original pointed a kunai behind his back smirking showing off her pointed teeth.

'Hmmm…her tactics and overall stratagem has improved…you have matured a lot haven't you,' he thought proudly before saying, "…Well for one your impatience hasn't changed." This earned him a scowl and a tick mark from both blondes. Turning his head to face her, he cheerfully spoke, "Now don't look so angry. I didn't say to start yet, did I? Alright…start!" he promptly vanished in a poof of smoke.

Natsumi dispelled her clone perking up slightly from the info she has received, 'I see a Kage Bunshin…He really is taking us seriously.' She frowned slightly as she scanned the area looking for her sensei.

To say that Sakura was shocked would be an understatement. Although she half expected it to possible, Natsumi was able to use legendary fox fire. 'This could be the chance I was waiting for,' she mused slowly reaching for her pack to retrieve the ofudas yet she pulled out a kunai instead. However tempting as it is she had a fight to focus on, 'Later demon. Later.'

'Left…above…right…behind…that leaves…' she scanned mentally her green eyes narrowed to pick the slightest movement, "Below!" she shouted. She quickly flashed through a few seals quickly and precisely. A blue glow began to form around her hands when she called out, "Chakra Enjintou!"(2) She grunted slightly as she increased the blades length and power creating a majestic blue sword-like projection from her hand. "Shanaroo!" bringing the blade down to the center of the field in an overhead chop splitting the earth in half. "Found 'pant' you," she exclaimed tiredly as she observed her now unearth teacher.

Kakashi analyzed the technique wide eyes as he quickly leaped out of the crevice that was carved out of the earth, 'Amazing…utilizing perfect control she was able to turn the Chakra Enjintou into a powerful attack ninjutsu. Although judging from her tired state she doesn't have much chakra going for her to make a repeat performance,' straightened up and decided to use an attack of his own before Sasuke gets any ideas.

The three were shocked at the seal speed of Kakashi that all they saw was a blur. Sasuke thinking quickly activated his Sharingan and threw a few choice kunai. It was in vain as Kakashi leaped into the air avoiding them and landed on water where he called out, "Let me refresh your earlier lessons, ne? Here is your first lesson in shinobi tactics, ninjutsu. Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!"(3)

The surface of the pond began to churn. Slowly a large serpentine dragon formed from the waters. It let out a frightening roar and charged at the three nins with the speed of rapids. Sasuke immediately went in action to counter Kakashi's jutsu. He grimaced slightly as he formulated plans mentally as he went through the seals, he cast a side glance at Natsumi who narrowed caught her eyes and nodded. He ended in the all familiar tiger seal, "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"(4)

He purposely overloaded the technique thus sending an oversized fireball against the raging water dragon. The two attacks collided creating a vast thick blanket of steam blocking everyone's vision. Kakashi pulled his kunai and leaped into more solid ground. His eyes searched thought the thick haze when he felt the hairs behind his neck prickle. Without even looking he blocked the incoming shuriken only to find hundreds coming from different directions when he heard a mocking tone in the mist, "Shihohappo Shuriken!"(5)

Kakashi was peppered with multitudes of deadly stars as it rained from all around him. Many connect but only for him to turn into a log with explosive notes stuck to it. The log detonated sending out a large concussive force blowing the mist away. When it cleared the three were alone in the battle field, then all three shinobi's eyes widen as from within the forest a tall and ominous stepped out of the forest. His loathsome amber snake like eyes filled with mirth and anticipation. Orochimaru raised a becoming hand towards Sasuke and spoke, "Come to me Sasuke. Let me give you true power."

Natsumi just slumped over and rubbed her brow while shaking her head, "Aw come on Kakashi-sensei. Did you really think you'll fool us in some crappy genjustu of hebi-teme?" she whined. She raised her hands in a ram seal but before she could concentrate her chakra Sakura brushed past her shoulder rather abruptly knocking her hands down.

The said pink haired teen raised her hands in a similar fashion and said, "Kai." The illusion dissolved without fuss as Orochimaru vanished from view. She turned to the slightly shocked kitsune hanyou and said, "You used a lot of chakra using those techniques. I thought I could give you a break," smiling.

Natsumi only nodded mutely as she bit her lip and glare at the ground. She was trying to reason with herself that Sakura was only looking out for her and she was losing horribly.

Sakura pushed he bangs out of the way and threw a few kunai at the bush where Kakashi was hiding, forcing him to come out. "Shinobi tactics: genjutsu, right sensei?" she said smirking.

Kakashi's sighed inwardly, 'It was so easy back in the day…' He snickered as he recalled them being caught by shitty traps, pathetic genjutsu, basic ninjutsu and no-look taijutsu. 'Ah those were the days. Now these three will outright kill me if I'm not careful,' he thought as he detected an incoming punch from his right side. He ducked low and grabbed a leg aiming kick from his left side. He grunted as he tried to block another punch from below. He didn't have to think twice to know that Sasuke wanted a piece of him. He winced in pain when a blow connected to his gut knocking him back a good few feet though he was still standing.

Sasuke was smirking when he felt that punch connect, "Shinobi tactics, taijutsu." However his smirk vanished as he observed the two girls from the corner of his eye. Something going one between those two but prying into it now might be a bad idea. He decided to drop the subject and called out, "Dobe, you think we can box him in?" his eyes not leaving their target.

Natsumi was already on it. She leaped into the trees and began to assault Kakashi in hand-to-hand combat. She aimed her claws towards his chest hoping to slash or scratch him up. Kakashi was forced to block using kunai as blocking Natsumi's claws with his bear hands was something incredibly foolish as his watched his kunai being slowly shredded by the hanyou's claws and the her tail acting as a third arm didn't help. Kakashi was pressed even further when Sasuke decided to engage as well with a rapid series of punches and kicks.

Kakashi jumped up to avoid a leg sweep from Sasuke and round house from Natsumi only to come face first against a chakra scalpel swipe from Sakura which he evaded by grabbing her wrist and kicking her away. He decided then and there to drop his feelings as a teacher and fight like a former ANBU captain or else he'll be in for a serious beating. He grabbed Natsumi's free leg that over extended when he avoided her kick and threw her at the incoming Sasuke.

Natsumi recovered from the throw just in time to twist her body in inhuman agility to avoid Sasuke. She used the remaining momentum to purposely brush past his shoulders and whispered into his ear before crashing into the forest before dozens of Kage Bunshin leapt out from the foliage to engage. Sasuke frowned a bit but decided to go through with her plan. He circled around the main battle as Kakashi took out the clones and fended Sakura off. He flipped through a few seals ending in a tiger seal, jumping into the air he breathe in deeply and released a large fireball shaped like a Chinese dragon's head towards his teacher, "Katon: Gouryuuka no Jutsu!"(6)

Kakashi mule kicked Sakura out of the way and jumped back as the dragon head came crashing into the battle field and destroying some of the clones. Sasuke continued firing several dragons' heads from above at Kakashi, using the recoil to keep airborne, mentally smirking as he watched Kakashi slowly back away into the forest, 'Perfect…' he thought.

Kakashi could feel something off as his years of experience was telling him so. It is as if those dragon heads weren't meant to hit him. He knows how accurate Sasuke can be when it comes to Katon jutsu. He leapt back when three consecutive attacks from above crashed into the ground and gave out a lot of searing dust and heat. He never noticed an oddly placed tree's branch slowly move behind him.

The dust settled and the combatants were at a standstill, however Natsumi was nowhere to be found. Kakashi searched the field for his missing student with his Sharingan eye when he heard a faint chime of bells from behind him. He quickly looked down to his belt and saw that the bells were gone! Turning quickly to the source of the sound he saw the bells on a branch of a tree but something was off with this tree but he couldn't place it, his Sharingan wasn't telling him anything at the moment. However his eyes widened when he saw the tree move and change before his eyes.

The crown and branches recede and change color from forest green to sunny yellow. The broad trunk shrank and became more petite and feminine. The roots part and became legs of a person. The human shaped tree thing in front of him slow grew into a more familiar outline. His eyes nearly popped out of his head when it revealed Natsumi wearing her signature shit eating grin holding two bells in her right hand.

She tossed them to Sasuke and Sakura. Sasuke smirked as he caught his bell while Sakura openly scowled as she gripped her own tightly in anger. Natsumi ignored her walked over to her teammates as her mouth narrowed into a very mischievous fanged smirk as she turned to Kakashi saying, "Kitsune shape shifting abilities. Look underneath the underneath, right sensei?"

"Mah looks like you guys got me this time," he said eye smiling as he pulled out his book again. Pulling down his hitai-te to hide his Sharingan he turned to his hanyou student whose ears perked up as soon as his eye settled on her, "That was a very interesting skill you have Natsumi. The shape shifting abilities of the kitsune are legendary. It is said no genjutsu master can break it let alone feel its presence. Good job."

Natsumi beamed at her teacher. She gave him a foxy smile and started to hop around the field pumping her fists in the air, "Hear that, I'm awesome!" she boasted loudly making the men of team 7 smile. When she settled down somewhat she turned to her team with a slightly serious expression. She cleared her throat and said, "Although it is great and the pranking possibilities alone are enough to make your heads spin. It is not perfect," she spoke with finality. Noting that she clearly have their attention she continued, "Kitsune alter their shapes completely not like the shinobi Henge no Jutsu which coats the body with chakra thus a more effective means of disguise. Therefore it is immune to the Sharingan however I am only half demon I have chakra pathways."

She waited a bit to let what she said sink in and gestured to field around them, "Unlike youki which flow freely throughout the body and surrounding areas like a force of nature, chakra isn't. In a transformed state, youki changes completely into the innate energy signature of the transformed object, while chakra doesn't. The chakra pathways do slow down enough not to be sensed by seasoned shinobi but they are still there thus exposing me to other great doujutsu the Byakugan," she concluded looking a bit sheepish.

Sasuke and Kakashi were contemplating on what she just said filing it for future circumstances then Sakura spoke up looking utterly bewildered, "Why did you tell us this?" Inside Sakura was thinking, 'Why would she expose the weakness of her abilities? What is this demon planning?'

The voice in the back of her head and Natsumi said, "Because you're my/her teammates and I/She trust/s you guys, isn't that enough?" at the exact same time. She was grinning broadly and said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Sakura looked down to the earth her bangs shadowed her eyes, "I see..." she said almost a whisper. Without looking up she turned on her and made haste to get out of the training field. The others almost called out after her but she beat to the punch saying, "I'm…tired. I'm going to rest up a bit. See you guys tomorrow, yeah…tomorrow." She ran as fast as she could to get of there.

'What is she scheming? Is she trying to get close to me to hurt me or…is she really…' her thoughts were a mess as she made through Konoha. The same thoughts echoed throughout her head as she quietly made her way up to her room. She stood in front of her desk almost zombie like. She shakily reached for the picture of team 7 on her desk, her fingers tracing the face of a scowling blonde haired boy. She gritted her teeth and slammed the picture to the ground. She stared at it with cold eyes as she mumbled in the shadows, "No…kitsune are tricksters…yeah tricksters…" She let out a soft giggle as she picked up the cracked photo of her team. "If I kill her everything will go back to normal right…Naruto?"

A continuous and disturbing sound of insane laughter can be heard from her window.

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His sand was crumbling. Although he saved his beloved village from destruction but he had lost. Outsmarted, tricked whatever you call it he was defeated. He felt his grip on consciousness slowly slip away. His thoughts drift to his people below, 'How are they? Is anyone hurt? What was the status of the civilians?' Then he heard a soft voice was heard in his ear whispering, "Rest now Gaara. You have done enough, leave the rest to me." He promptly gave in to dark arms of slumber.

Deidara was smirking as he watched the sand wrapping around the target slowly wither away with the wind revealing a broken and defeated Kazekage. His grin grew even broader as he watched the young man fall towards the earth. He made his move to grab the red haired jinchuriki, failing to notice the sand around him was not falling with Gaara.

A pair of golden eyes appears in the shadows of what is left of the sand cocoon. A melodic yet terrifying voice echoed throughout the battle field, "Foolish mortal," Deidara froze in mid action as his body began to shake in involuntary shivers. The power in the area began to spike from all directions. The winds howled and began to twist, catching to falling Gaara before they settled him gently on the ground. He watched in horror as the sand began to move violently along with the winds themselves.

The winds ripped away at the cocoon revealing, to his surprise, a beautiful sandy haired teenaged girl. Her frightening gold eyes seem to piece down to his very soul. Her hand gestured open and pointed a slender finger towards him as she shouted a simple word, "Die!"

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END Chapter Fourteen

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Well here is my fourteenth chapter and my longest one to boot. Anyway for those of you having trouble picturing Shakaku she looks like Stellar from Gundam seed destiny only with different hair, eyes and clothes. Also I'd like to clarify that Natsumi doesn't have any kunai, shuriken or equipment holsters. Everything she needs is sealed inside her cloak. Minato's a seal master where do you think he hides all those kunai?

Jutsu time!

1. Great Flame Wheel – The user rolls into a ball and begins to spin ad extreme speeds, and then the entire circumference of the wheel is surrounded by blue fire which can be released independently from afar or used into a devastating close ranged attack. Unranked, Demon exclusive, Offensive

2. Chakra Scalpels - A Ninjutsu technique used, primarily for field surgery. The ninja concentrates a powerful aura of chakra around their hand, creating a blade capable of tearing through muscles and arteries, or breaking bone, without actually breaking the skin of the person they're using it on. B-ranked, Supplementary

3. Water Style: Water Dragon Missile Technique - Using this jutsu, the user creates a huge current of water in the form of a dragon and sends it towards a target. B-rank, Offensive

4. Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique - Utilizing a large amount of chakra, a large ball of flame is exhaled from the user's mouth. When an Uchiha clan member masters this technique, they are recognized as an adult. In the anime, this seems to be a fairly common technique amongst Konoha ninja. C-rank, Offensive

5. Shuriken From All Directions - Once Natsumi clones herself using his Shadow Clone Technique, she and her clones throw a large number of shuriken from all angles at their opponent. It is similar in practice to the Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique used by the Third Hokage during his fight with Orochimaru. A-rank, Offensive

6. Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique – A more powerful fire attack than the Great Fireball technique and has a larger range. It fires a dragon shaped fireball towards an opponent at high velocities. It is said that multiple shots of this technique are hot enough to generate storm clouds. A ranked, Offensive

Oh majority of these techniques descriptions came from List of Ninjutsu from NoNameNeeded.