I'm baaaaaack.

Sorry it took so long to update cut my life has been crazy. I finish my first year of college and didn't do so well. Now I am taking summer courses at a community college.

Lets get right to the story...

"Begin"

Neither Sakura nor Itachi made a move. Itachi's eyes turned red as he activated the Sharingan. Sakura's pupils turned pink as she activated the Kahengan.

Ino sighed. "This is going to be a long match."

Hinata had her Byakugan activated. "Yeah," she said. "Right now they are fighting with genjutsu. Just like they do all the time."

Down on the field, Sakura and Itachi were sending genjutsu after genjutsu at each other. Every time one was sent, the other turned it in their own favor.

"I think they are getting annoyed with us," Itachi said.

"So?" Sakura didn't care.

"We should probably move to physical attacks."

"Fine," Sakura sighed. She did a few hand seals hit the ground with her hand. "Haeru!" (grow) When she brought her hand back up she brought a vine with her. All along the vine was inch long thorns. Then she jumped at Itachi swinging the vine like a whip. He dodged the whip and threw several kunai at her. She swung the whip and caught the kunai through the holes. One more swing and she sent the kunai back at Itachi. One hit its target. Then Itachi dissolved into a bunch of crows.

Sakura couldn't see Itachi, so she made a seal and a sakura petals appeared around her. She threw her arms out and the petals flew out in all directions, cutting through everything. Itachi leapt up, out of the swarm of petals and landed next to Sakura. Then they switched to Taijutsu. This went on for another twenty minutes until Ino said, "enough."

"Our turn." She and Deidara jumped down as Itachi and Sakura took their place.

"Begin," Tenten announced as a senbon hit the ground.

Ino jumped away as a bomb went off. Deidara was already on the bird. Ino looked around and activated her Yureigan. "Kira?"

A little girl walked out. 'Zenrei-sama?'

"Ready?"

'Hai, Zenrei-sama.'

"Kitsunetsuki!" (Spirit Possession) Ino left her body.

'Kira, jump up the trees and throw a kunai with a paper bomb at the bird!'

"Hai." She leapt up and threw the kunai which landed in the bird. Then she leapt to the ground as the bird exploded.

She landed and Deidara landed in front of her smiling.

"That was some nice art, un."

Then he suddenly went stiff. "Thank you," Ino said through Deidara as she grabbed a Kunai that Kira held out to her. "I win again," she said as she held the kunai to Deidara's throat.

"That was fast," Hinata said as Ino returned to her body.

"I have been working with Kira and training her."

"Good job, un." Deidara gave her a quick kiss and they vacated.

"Our turn," Hinata said cheerfully. "Who do I get?"

"Tobi wants to play! Tobi is going to be Tobi for several days and wants to work on fighting as Tobi."

"Okie Dokie."

Hinata jumped down followed by Tobi.

"Ready?"

"Tobi is but is Nata-chan ready?"

"Yup. Byakugan!"

"Begin!"

"Hakke Kusho!" (Eight Trigrams Empty Palm)

Tobi didn't move. The wave of chakra just passed through him.

"Nata-chan can do better than that."

"Shut it, Tobi."

Then Tobi leapt into the air and sent a rain of senbon down on her.

"Hakkesho Kaiten!" (Eight Trigrams: Heavenly Spin) All the senbon were deflected.

"Tobi can do better too." Hinata smirked.

"Tobi agrees. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" (Shadow clone jutsu)

Eight clones surrounded hinata.

"Katon: Goukakyu no Jutsu." (Fire style: Fire ball jutsu.)

"Shimmatta!" Hinata jumped into the air to dodge the fire. In midair she started spinning. "Hakkesho Kaiten!" She eliminated all seven of the clones.

She landed and faced Tobi.

"Did Tobi do better that time?"

"Much better." Hinata was breathing heavily and Tobi noticed.

"Tobi thinks we should stop. Nata-chan needs to save her chakra."

"I'm fine. Lets keep going."

"Tobi really thinks Hinata-chan should stop."

"No. I already said I'm fin-"

"Hinata! We are stopping." Tobi was gone and the mask was off. Hinata knew not to argue. Instead she glared at Madara who walked up to her.

"You need to save your chakra. If you overdo it now there will be problems later. Save it for Konoha."

"Besides, Pein would like to see you all." Zetsu appeared out of the ground.

"Again with the interrupting."

"You just interrupted me. I was going to tell them why."

"But I want to tell them."

"Pein told me to tell them."

"Us."

"ZETSU!"

"Gomen."

"Gomen. He has more information for you eight."

"He didn't tell me anything else."

"US!"

"Alright." Itachi said and the eight of them left for Pein's office as Zetsu got into another argument.

I know it's short but I wanted to get something to you guys. Just to verify, when Hinata asks "Who do I get?" she is referring to Tobi and
Madara.

Again, I'm sorry for the lack of updates and hopefully that will change. Please, please, please R&R. Thank you to all my loyal fans who have stuck with me through my spontaneous hiatuses.

KC