Disclaimer: (See Chapter 1)

NOTE: Jônin is a high ranking Ninja like Kakashi from Naruto

Me: Well! Guess what ya'lls?! It's been over a year since part 3 was born. Yep! My one year anniversary for My Life Just Turned Even More Insane. And since this is late, I want to wish Sheilee a belated birthday, Friday the 7th, as well.

Please take care, read and review,

Rocky-White Wolf of Curses

I had never been in a more difficult battle as this one. After killing several hundred of the damn demons, thousands more seemed to appear. I wasn't quite sure if the demons were getting killed or if there were just too damn many. Sheilee continued flying overhead, blasting away demons with her balls of wind, crushing the life out of them. And since demons were for darkness, Phoenix shed light on them.

I grinned at my very clever thought.

Well, if they use certain powers that are good against fire demons, then I suppose water will do just as good. In fact, with enough water, I can destroy every last one of them.

I jumped back from a demon coming at me and killed it. I was soon back to back with Xavier.

"Xavier, listen up," I said to him. "I can destroy these demons with water, but I can't do it when my friends and Slade are in the way," I explained. I attacked and killed a few more with my sword. "Meet me back in the middle with the others. I can only do this once."

Xavier and I glanced at each other. Xavier grinned.

"Sure thing!"

I attacked demons while running to Sheilee and Phoenix who were side by side. I helped them using my wind powers. I also used my mind powers to make the demons attack each other.

"Here's the plan!" I shouted over Sheilee's wind and the clash of the swords against the demon's arms. "We all need to meet back in the middle and huddle around me! I can only do this plan once and while none of us are in the crossfire! Let's go!"

We slowly made our way over to the middle while fending off against the demons. We made it to the middle about three minutes later along with Xavier, Slade, and Nightwing. We attacked several demons that continued coming at us.

"What's this plan of yours?" Nightwing asked.

I killed two demons before answering.

"Okay! I'm going to get enough water that'll make my own homemade ocean and kill all of these things! I will have a barrier around us so we don't get washed up in the mess!"

The demons backed off a bit, but stayed close by just in case one of us made a move to attack. I felt Sheilee's wings flutter against my back. I looked at her over my shoulder. She looked at me.

"My wings are right; what if there's not enough water in the world to make an ocean?"

I shrugged.

"If there's not enough then I'll just get water from the ice caps by melting a few of them with my fire and bring it back here."

"Will you be able to reach that far?" Nightwing asked.

I nodded.

"I think so." I held my hands in the final Jutsu position and closed my eyes. "I just need total concentration.

I took a deep breath through my nose and exhaled. I opened my eyes and saw water spiraling around all six of us. Soon the spirals turned into a tornado looking wall. Unfortunately my power was diminishing slowly from trying to reach to Antarctica's ice caps. When I felt that there was enough water to take down an entire army, I had lost over half my strength and chakra.

"Remember the clock," Slade said. "We have to get you and Phoenix home with it."

I nodded.

"I'll place a barrier of chakra around Xavier's home."

I placed a barrier around the building. My strength was almost gone as I did this.

"You can let it go now."

I glanced at Slade, grinned, and nodded. I looked back forward. I dropped my hands. The water fell and splashed towards the demons. The wall of water hit the demons. I fell to my hands and knees from exhaustion. Slade came up beside me. He placed a helping hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him over my shoulder and smiled.

"I'll be okay." I pushed up off the ground, stood up, and dusted snow off my pants. I looked around and noticed all the demons were gone. "Looks like I got 'em all." I put a hand on a slice on my side and faced the others. "They are all gone, right?"

Xavier shifted some snow and found broken pavement underneath. He got down onto his stomach and placed his ear to the ground.

"I can't hear anything," he said.

Slade walked in the direction of Xavier's place, but he stopped a few feet from us. Xavier stood up and walked over to him.

"Your ears aren't as good as they used to be, old boy."

Slade nodded once.

"Yeah, I know."

I turned to Phoenix.

"I got them all, right, Phoe?"

Phoenix shrugged.

"Its hard to say," she replied. "We couldn't see what was going on outside the tornado. For all we know they could've-"

"We have to get out of here!"

I whipped around. Xavier and Slade were running towards us.

"What?!" I asked alarmed. "Why?!"

The ground shook and rumbled. Slade and Xavier slowly turned around as my eyes widened; a large tidal wave, like the one in the movie the Day After Tomorrow that I had watched last year, was coming towards us. I saw several demons flying with the wave. I could very faintly hear Xavier's demon alarm going off at his place.

I stepped back, but was rooted to the spot while the others ran the opposite direction; I was so transfixed on the tidal wave that I couldn't move. Suddenly I felt Slade's strong grip latch on to my arm. He pulled and turned me around, pushing on my back to get me running. I complied, Slade coming taking up the rear.

"Back to my hideout!" he shouted. "Its demon proof and underground!" The others were far ahead of us. As I ran past a broken down restaurant, I tripped over a loose piece of concrete and fell. Slade pulled me up by the scruff of the neck and pushed me forward. "Come on!"

Slade and I continued to run. I looked over my shoulder as I ran. I saw the tidal wave getting closer. A few of the demons above the wave flew down towards Slade and me. I skid to a stop in the snow, turned, unsheathed my sword and attacked the closest demon. Another flew and shot its arm out at me. I put up my sword in defense, but the arm was sliced off by another sword. I looked to my left and saw Slade standing there. I smiled.

"Thanks."

Slade smiled back at me. We both faced the remaining demons flying at us. We stood in similar sword handling fighting stances. I jumped forward and attacked a demon. It vanished after I sliced through it. I saw one attack Slade from the corner of my eye. I placed the tip of my sword on the ground and ran with it following behind me. Fire trailed behind me, melting the snow. A demon flew straight at me. I jumped up, bringing my sword forward from the ground. I sliced through its tail and up past its head, killing it.

After several more kills, Slade and I eventually were back-to-back. Demons surrounded us, making it hard to find an opening.

"Any ideas?" I asked, not taking my eyes off the demons.

"Just one," Slade said. "Make an opening and run for the hideout. That tidal wave is only getting closer. We can't have you killed or it'll alter the future too much. You can't change history, Rocky. Its against the laws of time travel."

I growled low in my throat.

"What about you?" I asked. "If you plan on staying and fighting the rest of these demons, then you're done for. Besides, I leave no man behind."

Slade scoffed.

"I've lost count of how many times I've told you this; I never lose. I'll be right behind you. Promise."

I nodded and grinned.

"Right. Just don't lag behind, old man."

Slade chuckled.

"Don't worry; I won't."

I ran forward and attacked five demons, making an opening in the circle. I killed several more that attacked. I started to run after the others again. I heard Slade following behind, killing demons as he went. Soon I could faintly see the building above Slade's hideout. I grinned; we were gonna make it.

I made it past the tree and up to the door. I wrenched it open and ran inside. I ran to the stairs, but stopped.

"Slade! We made it! We-!" I turned before I said this, breathing deeply from running so hard. "Slade?" The door remained open, but Slade wasn't coming through. Panic rose into my chest. "No! Shit! Slade!" I ran out the door and past the tree. I skid to a stop and saw the tidal wave getting closer to a shadowed figure, lying in the snow. My eyes widened. "SLAAAAAADE!"

I ran towards Slade's fallen figure as fast as I could. I slid to a stop beside him and fell to the ground on my hands and knees. I looked quickly at the tidal wave then back to Slade several times, thinking of what to do. I growled in anger.

I leave no one behind!

I leapt on top of Slade and buried his head in my arms. I saw the tidal wave really close to us now from the corner of my eye. I closed my eyes tight, while holding hard onto Slade.

But then, all of a sudden, I heard thousands of voices shout, "Naruto Uzumaki is here to save you! Believe it!"

"Go, Akamaru!"

"WOOF!"

"I guess it's that time to save your butt again!"

I heard the tidal wave crash into something behind Slade and me.

"Hold on Naruto!"

I looked up and over my shoulder. I saw thousands of Naruto clones, a giant white dog the size of a small dinosaur, Kiba, and Kuráyami, all holding the tidal wave back with their best Jutsus. A gigantic wall of darkness formed in front of the tidal wave and closed around it. Kuráyami made the darkness rise into the air and disappear. I was breathing deeply from fear and exhaustion. The Naruto clones disappeared with a POOF! and the real Naruto stood on the ground beside the giant dog. A shadow cast over me. I looked up and saw Kuráyami standing over me. He leaned down on his haunches, his hands on his knees, and he gave me a quizzical look.

"You okay, Albino-boy?"

My eyes rolled up into the back of my head as I lost consciousness.

Later…

My eyes fluttered opened. I saw a bright florescent light hovering above me. I blinked, trying to get used to the blinding of it. I looked to my right and saw Slade sleeping in a hospital bed close beside me. I tried to sit up, but my arms felt like jelly, making me fall back down. I groaned after hitting my head on the bed.

"Hey! He's coming around you guys!"

I raised my head up as best I could and saw Naruto, Kiba, Phoenix, Xavier, Nightwing and Sheilee by the door. Sheilee flew over to me. She placed a hand on my chest. I let my head fall back onto my pillows.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

There was some silence before I answered.

"I guess so. I just feel like lead is all."

Xavier came up to my other side and checked my pulse and forehead. I saw him grin.

"I bandaged the cut on your side and checked for internal injuries. Let's just say you'll make a speedy recovery in less than 24 hours."

I smiled faintly and closed my eyes.

"That's good." I paused and frowned, looking back at Xavier then to Slade. I looked back at Xavier. "What's happened to Slade? Is he going to be alright?"

Xavier smiled weakly and nodded.

"He got hurt by a demon pretty bad," he replied. "It scorched his flesh and he lost a lot of blood. But I did a blood transfusion and he should come around some time later tonight." Xavier paused and grinned. "We'll let you get some sleep. Akamaru is watching out for any demons that may appear. I also got the Clock and my alarm from my house. Luckily the tidal wave missed it thanks to your barrier of chakra."

I leaned back onto my pillows, closed my eyes, and grinned again.

"Thanks a lot, Xavier. I think I'll go back to bed now."

There was a moment's pause.

"Come on everyone. We mustn't disturb our friends," I heard Xavier say. "They need their rest."

There was a shuffling of feet as everyone left the hospital wing and the light was turned off. Once the door closed I opened my eyes and looked over at Slade. His eye tightly closed before he opened it. He slowly turned his head over towards me. I smiled.

"You're one Hell of a Bastard, Slade," I said weakly. I looked back at the ceiling and closed my eyes. "I'm surprised you're still alive."

I heard Slade chuckle lightly.

"You can't get rid of me that easily."

I grinned and chuckled.

"Guess not." I yawned and felt myself drift back off towards sleep. "You better be awake when I get up. But it would be better if you woke up alive."

Slade sighed deeply.

"Don't worry kid. I promise."

That was the last thing I heard before drifting off to sleep.

Later Again…

I took a bite of the chocolate Kiba gave me while reading Naruto's Get Well card. The bed was in a sitting up position and my Ninja friends were sitting around it. Phoenix was having a quiet conversation with Slade. It was about three in the morning, but no one was tired. There was only one source of light next to me on a bed stand coming from a lamp that was dim enough for me to read.

I grinned while putting the card down. I looked at Naruto.

"You're a Ninja and an artist," I said happily. "Thanks for the Get Well cards you guys. I feel way better now. Thanks."

Kiba grinned

"We're just glad we got there in time before you were swallowed up by your tidal wave," he said. "If Kuráyami hadn't been traveling through the darkness, we may never have found you and Slade."

I looked at Kuráyami.

"Thanks."

Kuráyami smiled.

"Hey, any time."

Phoenix shooed the others away so that she could speak to me privately.

"How are you feeling?" she asked.

I smiled.

"Never better. How's Slade?"

Phoenix looked at him then back at me.

"He's okay. Somehow Slade has very fast healing abilities."

I nodded and closed my eyes.

"Slade's a weird one," I said. I opened my eyes. "Are you okay?"

Phoenix blinked in confusion.

"Yeah. Why?"

I shook my head.

"I just thought you'd be very worried about Slade and me. So I was wondering if you were okay."

Phoenix smiled and nodded.

"Yes, of course I am."

I grinned and closed my eyes again.

"I think I'm ready for bed now. Could you bring Slade closer towards me and turn off the light?"

"Yes," Phoenix replied.

I heard a click as the light turned off. Then I heard Phoenix bringing Slade's bed closer to mine. Phoenix adjusted my bed so that I was leaning back. Phoenix gave me a hug. I opened my eye a crack and saw her say good night to Slade, who grinned and said good night too. She too gave him a hug and left. I looked up at the ceiling and closed my eyes.

"What did Phoenix ask you?"

"She just wanted to know how I was feeling is all," Slade answered. "I didn't think she cared about me that much."

I grinned.

"You saved her from a life time in Hell. Of course she cares about you. But sadly this is where it got us."

"Yes, I agree. Fate is like that."

I chuckled.

"Fate's a Bitch."

I heard Slade laugh slightly.

"I suppose it is."

There was silence as I thought of my next question.

"Do you ever regret making me your Apprentice?"

Slade didn't answer for at least ten minutes. I supposed he was thinking deeply on how to answer that.

He finally replied, "Yes, I have, many times. Ever since your mother died I couldn't decide to let you and your friends go or not. But, then, I thought about Phoenix and how she never had a family of her own for so many years since she murdered her family. We are so much alike, you and I."

I opened my eyes and looked at Slade.

"How so?"

Slade stared up at the ceiling, a frown on his face.

"We both lost the closest thing to our hearts."

I sat up on my elbows and gave Slade a quizzical look.

"What do you mean?"

Slade finally looked at me. I was a bit surprised when I saw a tear welling in his eye.

"I, too, lost my family, as did you. We both lost the most precious thing to us; family and love."

Slade looked back at the ceiling, a tear falling from the corner of his eye. I closed my mouth that had been opened part way, leaned back on my pillows and looked back at the ceiling. I felt Slade's hand lay on top of mine. I looked at his hand with a sad look on my face. Tears formed and fell from my eyes and down my cheeks.

"We're not the only two who lost our families," I said. "Phoenix, Cora, Lea, Naruto, Kuráyami, and Nightwing lost people precious to them too."

Slade gripped tightly to my hand.

"Yeah."

I closed my eyes, looked up at the ceiling, and went back to bed.

Next Day's Afternoon…

"How's that Clock coming?"

"I almost have it put back together," Xavier replied. "Then I'll have to super glue the broken piece and place it back into the Clock in the right place."

I took another spoonful of soup and put it in my mouth. Xavier was putting the pieces back into the Clock while I ate my lunch with him at the dining table. I glanced at the alarm for the hundredth time with my spoon still in my mouth.

"A watched pot never boils Rocky."

I looked over at Slade, who was drinking a strawberry banana smoothie through a bendy straw. I found it hard to see Slade as the smoothie type with a bendy straw, but it was funny all the same.

"Oh spare me the lecture," I said grinning, "Mr. Strawberry Banana Smoothie Drinker." Slade growled slightly but said nothing and continued drinking his smoothie. I finished up with my soup, stood up, and put my bowl in the sink. I held onto my side as it throbbed. "I'll be outside watching Naruto and the others. Wanna join Slade?"

Slade finished his smoothie and stood up. He went over to his trashcan. He placed his foot on the lid opener and dropped his plastic cup in the trash.

"I suppose so."

Slade and I headed for the kitchen door.

"I'll inform you when the Clock is done," Xavier said.

I looked over my shoulder at him.

"Much appreciated, Xavier."

I followed Slade outside. I saw Kiba petting the giant dog while watching Naruto and Kuráyami Ninja battle. I sat down beside Kiba and looked up at the dog.

"So…who's your friend?"

Kiba looked up at the dog then at me. He grinned.

"Its Akamaru."

My eyes widened slightly.

"Damn he's gotten big!"

Kiba laughed.

"Yep. He sure is. He was just a small puppy back during the Chûnin Exams. I don't know what I'd do without him."

I looked back at Naruto and Kuráyami's battle. I started a fire on the ground where the ground was snow free and held my hands over it.

"The future sure is cold."

"Yeah. Konoha Village and every other village are covered with snow. Even the Village Hidden in the Sand has snow. The world's a madhouse."

I chuckled slightly.

"I'd expect so."

"But Akamaru loves the snow a lot. So its not that big of a deal in Konoha."

I looked back up at Naruto and Kuráyami. Naruto seemed to be having trouble seeing Kuráyami, even though he was right in front of him. I assumed he had blinded Naruto like he had done to me when we first met and fought him when Slade posed as Mayónako-sensei. I grinned, knowing what to do.

"Sorry Kuráyami!" I shouted to him, "but I'm on Naruto's side!" I looked at Naruto and cupped my hands to my mouth. "Hey! Naruto! Just say Kai Release!"

Kuráyami looked at me and glared.

"Hey! That's cheating!"

I burst out laughing as Naruto said the Releasing Jutsu on himself and knocked Kuráyami clear off his feet. I stopped laughing, but continued to chuckle. When Kuráyami stood up and looked at me, I shrugged while grinning.

"Stop using cheap tricks, bud!" I shouted to him.

Kuráyami rolled his eyes. He looked at Naruto and ran towards him, doing a few hand signs.

"Hyōton! Kokuryū Bōfusetsu!" Kuráyami shouted. "Ice Style! Black Dragon Blizzard!"

A black dragon with blood-red eyes shot out from behind Kuráyami and straight for Naruto. Naruto's eyes widened as he watched the dragon approach. He looked too freaked to move.

But then, all of a sudden, another black dragon with blood-red eyes flew over Naruto's head and crashed into Kuráyami's dragon. The two dragons blasted each other to smithereens, making it look like embers flying into the air from a fire. They showered around Naruto, Kiba, Kuráyami, Akamaru, Slade and me. I jumped up and looked around. I noticed Kuráyami looked pissed.

"What the Hell?! Only I know the Black Dragon Blizzard technique! Who the Hell did that?!" Suddenly an echoed laughter was heard around us. I looked up to the sky and around, trying to locate the owner of the creepy laughter. "Show yourself you Bastard! No one knows my Black Dragon Blizzard technique! NO ONE!"

The laughter turned into an echoed chuckle. Then it spoke.

"You really want to know how I learned your technique?"

The voice echoed through the air. It was a very dark voice that sounded vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place my thumb on it. I looked around.

"Who are you?! What do you want?!"

The voice started to laugh again. I heard a door slam open behind us. We all turned and saw Xavier in the doorway, terror on his face.

"Get out of the way!"

Before Xavier could finish his sentence fully, he flew harshly back and crashed into the small building that sat above Slade's hideout. The whole building broke into thousands of pieces and was strewn all over the ground. The stairs to Slade's hideout could be seen through the rubble.

I growled.

"Xavier!"

"Today is your final day," the voice said, no longer an echo. In fact, it sounded awful close. "You will all die here."

I whirled around right as a fist encased in black punched me in the chest. I flew back and crashed into the ground. I slid to a stop before the stairs. I slowly got up and looked up at my attacker, breathing deeply from the punch. A bead of sweat formed on the side of my face. My eyes widened at the figure.

The person, if that was what it was, was only a little taller than me, had long spiked-back blue hair with bits of black, blood-red eyes with blue pupils, long finger nails soaked with blood while wearing Jônin black gloves that were cut off at the second knuckle with spikes going up the sides, wearing a black and red cape over his shoulders, and a scratched leaf headband, also soaked with blood, around his waist with a pure black sword between his headband and waist. I felt immense amount of chakra flowing out from him, sending a chill up my spine.

I ventured and asked, "Who are you?"

The person smirked, exposing sharp, pearly white teeth that were sharp enough to kill. He chuckled.

"Why…I'm you."