Now we see what happens in this fight.

The four guardians each reached down to the snow there was a sudden rush of wind, so cold that it caused the water in the air around them. To freeze into snowflakes, the four then stood up each one holding a different weapon, the farthest one to the right had a n ice quarter staff. The one next to him was holding two ice kodachis, the one closest to him was wielding, a ice long sword. The farthest to the left was holding a chain-quarter staff.

The four ninjas each drew a kunai, then they each picked a dance partner and began their perspective battles. Kakashi expertly dodged and parried his opponents attacks he made quick work of his quarter staff breaking it in half with the butt of his kunai. The guards mask contorted into a smile like shape,

"Impressive I haven't had this sort of a challenge in nearly a century." said the guardian in his whisper like tone.

"Well I'm flattered." said Kakashi amazed that the guardian seemed to be acting as if this were nothing more than a friendly sparing match.

He then jumped out of the way as the guardian threw one-half of his broken quarter staff that now had a razor sharp point on the end of it. Kakashi then threw a shuriken at the guardian in retaliation

"Ice/Wind Style: Frozen Wave Jutsu." said the guardian.

Kakashi jumped away from a large wave of snow and ice that had appeared from seemingly nowhere he did a set of hand signs.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" said Kakashi as he pulled down his mask and blew a large ball of flames at the on coming snow, and ice.

There was a low hissing sound was heard as the two Jutsus collided, a thick cloud of steam and vapor began to fill the air. Kakashi's highly trained ears began to pick up what sounded like a wheeze, but the more he listened the more he realized it wasn't a wheeze it was laughter.

'Somethings wrong here' thought Kakashi as he reached up to his head band and pulled it up revealing a blood red eye with three black tome encircling a black pupil.

The revealed eye began to spin rapidly as he began to decipher what was beginning to go on around him. But no matter what he tried to do he couldn't see what was happening around him because of all of the fog and vapor. He then jumped out of the way as a large dagger of ice flew at him from virtually nowhere. Kakashi looked around as he tried to find where the ice was coming from, but all he got was a barrage of ice daggers flying towards him. Kakashi jumped into the air trying to get out of the fog, but it seamed to have encased him. As if it had a mind of its own. It didn't seam to matter how high he got, the fog was just as thick as ever.

'What is this?' he thought as he started to dodge another wave of ice.

Kakashi dodged them as best he could, his eye was spinning like crazy as it attempted to decipher the Jutsu and the fog. But all of his attempts were unsuccessful no matter what he tried the fog was a mystery to him, then he felt something hit him in the stomach. He looked down to see that one of the daggers had stuck him.

***

Ino and Sasuke found themselves sharing fighting partners as the two guardians decided to gang up on both of them. Sasuke parried the sword attacks wile Ino did her beast to block the staff's loose parts and watch Sasuke's back (Much to her joy) as best she could which was becoming increasingly difficult.

"Ino watch out!" shouted Sasuke as he pushed her to the side to keep the sword from running her threw.

Ino blushed

"Uh Sasuke...you save me." he said happily.

"Shut up and look out!" shouted Sasuke as he did his best to hold the two guardians off.

As he fought the two he started to notice that their movements started to become read able and slower, as if he was seeing things before they happened. Then realization dawned upon him and he got a smirk on his face

'I'm one step closer to completing my goal' he thought as he parried the guardian's attacks.

He then began a set of hand signs.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" shouted Sasuke as he blew a large fireball at the two guardians. There was a large amount of steam as the flames began to lick the two guardians.

A low wheezing sound was heard as the two disappeared into the fog, that was so thick that it was suffocating to breath. The two ninjas began to cough and sputter as they gasped for air, the wheezing sound from the two ninjas began to grow fainter. As their visions became clouded their lungs struggled to take even the smallest amount of air. Pain shot through them with every breath they drew Sasuke attempted to preform another set of hand signs, but lost consciousness before he could complete the Jutsu.

***

Naruto dodged the dae-katanas with relative ease he shattered one of the frozen blades with the butt of his kunai. The guardian nodded to Naruto then threw his last blade to the side, Naruto nodded and replaced his kunai. The guardian did a set of hand signs, Naruto jumped into the air to avoid the Ice Jutsu that had just been shot at him, he watched as the attack touched the nearby ocean causing it to freeze into a new land mass made entirely of ice. He heard a whistling sound in the air and jumped just in time to avoid a kunai that had an explosive tag attached to it, there was a loud explosion as the tag detonated. Causing a large plume of smoke and fire to appear in the area providing excellent cover for both ninjas Naruto landed on the ground that had begun to (unbeknownced to him) melt. Naruto pulled the last kunai that he had from his pouch, his thoughts dwelled on his teammates and he worried about their safety as they each fought their own opponents. Naruto suddenly jumped from his spot as a large spike made entirely of ice shot from the ground the tip of the spike was glaze with blood as it sliced Naruto's forearm.

Naruto grasped his torn sleeve in an attempt to stifle the bleeding, on to have to parry an oncoming kunai, that had another paper bomb attached to it, Naruto quickly jumped into the air as the second bomb exploded. Filling his vision with smoke

'This is bad' he thought as he tried to see through the opaque air all of his senses told him he was in the worst danger possible.

He already knew that for a ninja, being in the air is like a lost lamb inside a lion's den, suddenly he felt a dull pain from the top of his head as his sight when black, he fell through the smoke filled air. His teammates could do no more than watch as they were fighting with their own opponents, Kakashi tried his best to free himself of his foe and try and save his fallen teammate. But it was all for naught as he was blocked at every turn by the person he was fighting. Naruto fell into a large crevasse that had been created by the explosions from the two paper bombs. Then Naruto disappeared from site, a thunderous laughter was heard as Naruto's opponent blurred through a set of hand signs, the name of his Jutsu was lost by the loud howling wind as the crevasse closed shut entombing Naruto within its frozen depths.

***

Kakashi turned into a log that had been skewered, Kakashi left out a slight sigh of relief as he watched the log split in two. His eye stopped spinning after he'd finished watching the log split

'So that's it!' he thought as he preformed a set of hand signs.

The fog suddenly vanished from around his person, he looked into the air to see Naruto falling into a large crevasse then get sealed up. His heart felt like it fell into his stomach he shook his head and ran over to Ino and Sasuke and undid the Genjutsu that they were placed under. Both Ino and Sasuke sat up and started coughing uncontrollably. They both took deep breaths as they tried to figure out what happened.

"Kakashi Sensei you saved us" said Ino.

"Yes," said Kakashi solemnly.

Ino looked around.

"Uh Sensei, where's Naruto?" she asked curiously.

Kakashi pointed to the area that was now covered in a large sheet of ice that now covered Naruto's grave. Ino looked at the spot that he was pointing at curiously,

"Is he hiding?" she asked stupidly.

Kakashi sighed.

"No, Ino he's not hiding that's his grave." said Kakashi solemnly.

Ino's face went pale as the snow that was laying on the ground.

"But he was...trained by master Jiriaya!" said Ino.

"This enemy was something that not even Master Jiriaya could've faced" said Kakashi as he pulled his head band over his Sharigan eye.

"Lets return to the village we'll rethink our strategy as it seams the guardians have retreated for now" said Kakashi as the group made their way off the mountain.

***

Hinata walked through the village a bright smile on her face she'd just been told that her squad had been assigned to back up Naruto's. She walked as calmly and quickly as she could but her excitement was starting to rival that of Naruto's when he finds a new Ramen dish. She soon found herself in her room packing everything she thought she'd need for the trip mainly heavy cloths and such. She then bolted out of the Hyuga Estate and ran to the place where she would be meeting with the rest of her team. She didn't have to wait long as everyone had arrived not too long after she did Choji looked less than thrilled that he would be going to help someone that he'd considered a rival for Hinata's love. Shikamaru looked as impassive as always not really wanting to go but having no choice in the matter did nothing more than moan and sigh. Kurenai smiled at her team with an air of pride about her as she was happy that the Hokage had chosen them to help Kakashi's team. The group nodded to one another then they set out to meet the boat that would take them to the Land of Snow.

***

The group jumped off the boat the very moment it docked they found that the weather was quite warmer than what they'd expected. When Kurenai asked about the peculiar weather they were told about the chakra generators that warmed the area. They walked through the village for quite some time as they searched for the Inn that Kakashi and his group were staying the night. (Kakashi had sent a missions report earlier that day). Hinata nearly jumped for joy when they finally found it, they asked for the room that Kakashi Hatake was staying in. The receptionist told them the room number, they walked to the door and knocked.

There was no response, they knocked again, still nothing.

"Maybe they've already left?" said Hinata in a disappointed tone.

There was the sound of foot steps causing them to turn and see Kakashi, Sakura, and Sasuke walking up the stairs.

The group looked as if they'd just been through Hell and back, but there was someone that wasn't there with them.

"Where's Naruto?" asked Hinata thinking that he'd probably stopped for a bite to eat.

Sorry if the chapter is short but I thought that this would be the perfect spot for a cliff hanger. Don't you just hate these things?