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Writing: Italic: thought, Bold: Bijuu or summoning speaking

"A man with nothing to lose is capable of anything."-Unknown

Arashi felt his muscles begin to actually scream in pain as he kept pumping more and more of Houkou's chakra into his system, but he ignored it as he swung a giant fire ball at Kisame who was forced to dodge the attack. Kisame had tried on several occasions to hit Arashi with Samehada, but before his blade could reach him a giant slab of earth shielded him. Arashi slammed his earth tail on the ground making spikes shoot out of the ground and try and impale Itachi and Kisame. Itachi was having a hard time himself even with his Sharingan he couldn't keep his eyes focused on three different things at once. He had to watch the ground, Arashi, and that fire tail of his.

"It would appear when he uses the earth he slams his earth tail on the ground." Itachi thought through the entire ordeal he was studying Arashi's attacks. "When he swings his fire tail he creates a wave of fire or a fireball. So with that it is pretty straight forward on how he attacks, but the problem is getting close enough." Itachi was also wondering about one other thing. The Akatsuki knew about every Jinchuriki and their Bijuu, but he has never heard of Arashi or any Bijuu with the power to manipulate the elements like this.

Itachi suddenly dodged a giant slab of rock heading straight for his face, but as soon as he dodged Arashi was right there in front of him his chakra claw already in a swinging motion to detach Itachi from his lower half. Arashi's claw passed right through Itachi, but instead of blood it was water that came out. Arashi let out yet another roar of rage and began to snarl as the animals began to jump up and down almost like they were happy. Most of the animals had taking to circling Nami and the body of Taifuu almost as if they were protecting them.

Arashi caught sight of both Kisame and Itachi both standing together. "You are a very strong little beast on you." Kisame said. "This is going to be fun." Arashi's response was another roar that shook the ground and made the trees actually bend in odd angles.

"What is he?" Itachi thought yet again still puzzled about what he was seeing.

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Hinata had just got done defending against ten puppets when ten more showed up and began to glide towards her, but before they could reach her a white blur tore them down. When it finished beaten down the last of the puppets it turned around it had red skin and tusks coming out of it's mouth. This was one of Chiyo's ten puppets she was currently using.

"Thank you." Hinata said to the elder who only nodded her head. She looked back to see Sakura and some of Chiyo's other puppets dealing with Sasori's puppet army.

"There's so many how can we beat them all." Hinata thought. Sakura suddenly came running up to Hinata while Chiyo's puppets tried to fight off Sasori's.

"Hinata we need to take out Sasori." Sakura said. At first Hinata was stunned, but she soon understood what needed to be done. Take out the puppet master his subjects will fall.

"Let's go." Hinata said with a rare form of determination entering her voice. This brought a smile to Sakura's face as she gave a nod to Chiyo who knew what to do. Suddenly Hinata and Sakura were surrounded by the last remaining puppets of Chiyo which was about four.

They made a running dash through the puppets towards Sasori who looked on. Chiyo's puppets were all being cut into pieces from the sear number of Sasori's puppets, but one puppet managed to make it's way toward Sakura and opened it's mouth revealing a clear round ball with a yellow shape inside. Sakura took the item from it before it was tackled and slammed into pieces.

Sakura looked around and saw that puppets were descending on her, but Hinata pushed her forward with a chakra enhanced push. Hinata then proceeded to swing her arms wildly making a dome of sharpened chakra that cut the puppets into pieces.

"Keep going Sakura!" Hinata shouted out as she dodged a poisoned tipped sword.

Sakura put more chakra into her feet increasing her speed and when she got with in throwing distance she skidded to a halt and with all of that momentum she threw the orb at Sasori.

As the orb traveled through the air it began to grow until it resembled a lion's head with teeth all around itself mouth. Sasori's eyes widened as he was impaled by the lion head and slammed into the wall behind him, but when he hit the wall the red cylinder popped out of his chest and flew into another puppet.

Sakura had her back turned to Sasori as he raised his blade and swung his sword, but found he couldn't move when he looked he saw little bits of chakra on his new puppet body.

"You were right Hinata." Chiyo said with her fingers outstretched with blue on the tips. "It would seem that red container is what is keeping Sasori alive."

Sasori at first was confused until he looked into Hinata's eyes and saw the Byakugan activated. "So she used it to see where I was getting all my chakra from." Sasori thought. "Clever girl."

"It would appear that I've been caught." Sasori said with a tone that made it sound like he was angry, but proud of them as well. Sakura turned around and began to charge up chakra knowing that Chiyo couldn't keep hold of Sasori for long.

"Before you kill me let me tell you something." Sasori said with a smile. "It a week at the Tenchi bridge I'm suppose to meet a spy of mine. He was my spy on Orochimaru."

At that Sakura stopped and looked at Sasori with a stunned expression. "Sasuke." Sakura thought to herself.

Sakura raised her fist into the air and punched Sasori in the chest where the red container was. Sakura's hand was covered in purple liquid as Sasori leaned forward. Sakura yanked her hand out and Sasori fell face first onto the ground still smiling.

Chiyo looked at her grandson with a sad expression, but she felt two sets of hands on her shoulder. Hinata and Sakura turned her around a led her out of the cave.

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Deidara was know being chased by Guy's team along with Kakashi and Naruto. Neji suddenly appeared beside him and blasted him with a burst of chakra sending him through a tree.

Deidara landed next to his clay bird and with a wicked smile he stood up and took a bite out of it. Their squad landed in front of him a few feet away and watched as he devoured pieces of his bird.

"Is this guy crazy?" Naruto thought as he looked up and saw a him smiling as he began to expand like a balloon. Every stood there as he kept expanding until he was about to explode he said one thing.

"Art is a BLAST!" Deidara shouted out as he exploded making a giant wall of fire coming at the group.

"It's too fast we can't outrun it." Kakashi thought as his Sharingan morphed once more into its Mangekyo form. "There is only one option."

"Kamui (Might of the Gods)." Kakashi said and before the fire could reach them completely it was sucked into a vortex, but almost immediately Kakashi clutched his Sharingan eye as a wave of pain shot through his body.

"Kakashi-sensei are you alright?!" Naruto said as he caught Kakashi who looked like he was about to fall.

"Yeah just a little bit tired is all." Kakashi said with an eye smile while Guy simple started to yell about his rival trying to act cool. The team got up and began to walk away from the explosion site not noticing Deidara slipping into the shadows.

Naruto was thinking about something else. "I wonder where Arashi and his team are?" Naruto thought.

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Arashi was beginning to slow down his muscles actually felt like they were eating themselves to keep his energy up. Itachi had to give it to Arashi he was actually making him and Kisame put up a fight, but Itachi narrowed his eyes when he saw a large amount of blood leaking out of the corners of Arashi's mouth.

"This fight is about over." Itachi said as he gave Kisame a signal who nodded. Itachi's Sharingan morphed into his Mangekyo.

"Amaterasu." Itachi stated calmly as his right began to bleed as the black fire traveled towards Arashi who let out a roar of defiance and slammed his earth tail on the ground and sent a giant wave of rock at Amaterasu. Amaterasu connected with the stone, but even with it beginning to melt the fire was being pushed back making Itachi jump out of the way. Arashi was about to jump at him when Kisame suddenly appeared behind him swinging Samehada as his chest. Arashi's earth tail hit the ground just as Samehada slammed into him taking away all of Houkou's chakra that Arashi was using, but thanks to the after effect a spike slammed into Kisame's side drawing blood and taking a bit of his robe too, but the attack merely grazed his side..

Arashi was swung into the tree next to Nami who was looking a little bit better after eating a couple of food pills to get some of her chakra back.

"You were one tough individual little boy." Kisame said with a sneer as Samehada began to move under those bandages. "To bad we have to end it-." Kisame was interrupted when the animals attacked him. Kisame tried to swat the animals away, but every time he tried they would jump out of reach and attack again. That was when Itachi came up to them and fired a fireball at them making them flee back into the woods.

When they looked back they saw that Nami had her fingers together in a seal and before they could do anything a thick mist rolled in obscuring both Kisame and Itachi's vision. Arashi decided to say one thing before they left.

"Kisame Hoshigaki." Arashi said with anger in his voice. "I'll remember you."

Kisame smiled and was about to chase after his prey when Itachi grabbed his arm. "Wasn't you who said that we should kill him." Kisame said with a confused tone in his voice.

"We need to report this to the rest." Itachi said with no emotion. "Besides they stalled us long enough we missed our chance to get Naruto."

Kisame simply shrugged his shoulders and walked with his partner to the secret base.

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It was a bitter sweet moment for the Suna villagers that had gathered around Gaara. Chiyo had managed to bring Gaara back, but at the cost of her own life. After praying for her every one began to disperse except for a select few who were walking and talking to Gaara.

"So are you feeling any better Gaara?" Naruto asked his friend who was trying to walk on his own.

"I'm fine Naruto." Gaara said with a small smile.

Naruto was about to answer when he heard someone calling his name he turned around to see Arashi using Nami to help him walk for little bit.

"ARASHI!" Naruto yelled out and was about to run at him when he took a good look at them. Nami looked tiered with a few scraps and bruises, but Arashi looked the worst out the two. Blood was dripping from his mouth, his cloths were in tatters, and he had burns and cuts on him that weren't there before. In fact the only thing not damaged was his fang necklace.

"What the hell happened to you?" Naruto asked while the others gathered around that was when he realized something. "Hey what happened to Taifuu?" At that Arashi got a look of pure grief and Nami had tears start to form again.

Almost everyone there had a feeling about what happened to Taifuu. "He died protecting me." Arashi said with sadness in his voice.

"What do you mean what the fuck happened?" Naruto asked not quiet believing what he heard.

"Well we found some other Akatsuki members heading in your direction so we went off to try and stall them for you guys." Arashi said while Nami began to cry again.

"Who were they?" Kakashi asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Itachi and Kisame." Arashi said. As soon as those two names left his mouth everyone was completely stunned.

"You tried to stall Itachi and Kisame." Kakashi said.

"Yeah well it worked for the most part." Arashi said this has he looked at the scroll in his hand and gently passed it to Nami who took it.

Arashi walked up to Gaara and looked him up and down before smiling at him. "It's good to see your back with the living." Arashi said while giving Gaara a small punch to the shoulder.

Gaara looked at him unfazed. "I'm sorry about your friend." Gaara said while he offered his hand which Arashi took.

"It's not your fault I made the choice and he died because of it." Arashi said with no happiness on his face. "At any rate we need to get going before our Mizukage sends out hunter-nins." He went around and shook everyone's hand. He turned around to get to Nami, but before he could walk more then four feet he doubled over and began to scream, but this wasn't a normal scream. This scream was soul shattering blood started to come out of his mouth as he collapsed on the ground and held onto his stomach.

Nami was the first one to reach him she immeditly tried to form some chakra, but she couldn't even get a signal bit. She saw that Sakura and Hinata and the others where coming over so she moved out of they way.

"Please be okay I don't want to lose another person close to me." Nami thought to herself.

Arashi had finally calmed down, but has soon as Sakura tried to use some medical Jutsu he immediately began to scream that soul shattering scream. Naruto, Kakashi, and Guy had to hold him down just to keep him from thrashing about. Hinata activated her Byakugan and what she saw almost made her sick. Arashi own chakra was attacking his muscles along with his white chakra that she saw at the exams. Sakura was finally able to check on Arashi condition much to his own pain. Sakura saw what Hinata saw, but it was much, much worse. Arashi was bleeding internally from several different areas. She could feel that the white chakra was trying to heal him, but she knew without a hospital he would die.

"We need to take him to Konoha right NOW!" Sakura said with fear in her voice.

"Why what's wrong with him?" Naruto asked as his friend let out another scream.

"He is bleeding internally, but we have to move him without making him move around much." Sakura said while she was thinking, but that was when sand suddenly covered Arashi from his legs all the way up to his neck.

"I can compress it enough to keep him still, but not enough to cause further damage." Gaara said while the sand stretcher slowly lifted itself off the ground.

"Can you keep it up until we can get to Konoha?" Sakura asked to which Gaara nodded.

Gaara turned to Kankuro and told him to tell the village he would be back Kankuro nodded his head and ran off.

"If we can we have to get there tonight." Sakura said and everyone gave sharp nods. Kakashi turned his head towards Nami.

"You better go tell your Mizukage what happened." Kakashi said. Nami didn't look to happy about it, but after making sure that they would take care of him she ran in one direction while Naruto and them ran off in the other.

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Deep in a dark cave two silhouettes appeared before Pain and the other members of Akatsuki including Deidara who was getting new arms stitched back on and Tobi a new recruit.

"What happened?" Pain asked Itachi.

"We were interrupted by a group of mist nins on our way to the Kyuubi." Itachi said.

"So the great Itachi and Kisame where held back by three weaklings." Deidara said with a smile.

"Two of them were no one of concern," Itachi said with an odd note of seriousness in his voice. "But one of them could be trouble in the future."

"Well who was it?" Kakuzu said with a gruff and bored voice while he finished Deidara up.

"His name is Arashi Tekiatsu and he is a Jinchuriki." Itachi said much to the surprise of everyone around them except for pain.

"What do you mean a Jinchuriki?" Pain asked. "We know about every Jinchuriki out there and they is no Arashi on that list."

"Yes I know," Itachi said. "But Kisame can provide a backup to my story. There is also another problem when he went into his demon form he could control fire and earth, but I'm almost certain that he wasn't even using his full power."

Kakuzu suddenly snapped his fingers. "Now I remember that name." Kakuzu said with a glint in his eyes. "Tekiatsu remember him Hidan." To which his partner just groaned.

"Yeah that fucking bastard was so fucking annoying." Hidan said.

"What are you two talking about now?" Deidara asked in an annoyed voice.

Kakuzu looked down at Deidara. "On one of my bounties was a man named Kyouran (fury) Tekiatsu and his wife Kirisame (light rain)." Kakuzu stated. "They both had a good bounty on they heads about ten million ryo equally. When we got to his home he put up a good enough fight and so did his wife, but in the end they died at our hands."

Pain had a thoughtful look on his face. "Itachi is he going to be a problem." Pain said with little emotion.

"At the moment he could be trouble." Itachi said. "But when he was fighting I noticed that blood was coming out of his mouth. It could mean nothing, but if it means anything it means that his demon's chakra could've been tearing him apart from the inside."

Pain once again had a thoughtful expression before speaking. "Zetsu." Pain said addressing the plant man.

"Yes-Yes." Both of Zetsu's halves said.

"I want you to find and watch that boy for the time being." Pain said while Zetsu gave a nod and sunk into the ground. "Everyone else you know what to do." Everyone gave a nod and began to file out except for one: Tobi.

Deidara turned around and saw that his new partner wasn't following. "Come on Tobi we have to get that fucking turtle."

"Be right there Deidara-sempai just need to get something." Tobi said with a very enthusiastic wave. Deidara turned around and walked out when the cost was clear Madara dropped the act.

"So you don't think this Arashi could be a problem?" Madara said with a unnerving calm in his voice.

"At the moment from what Itachi said about their fight he shouldn't be a problem." Pain said.

Madara just shrugged his shoulders. "Just remember that we can't afford any more screw-ups."

"Don't worry everything is going according to plan." Pain said with no emotion.

"See that it does." Madara said before adopting his Tobi persona and running out of the cave with a skip to his step.

Here is the next chapter please read, enjoy, and review. I hope you all have a great day.