Chapter 20

Marco whined to get Misa's attention to him from Nozomi. "What's up boy?" He barked, 'The people in the masks up there…' Misa looked up and saw the ANBU, one was staring at her. '…they want to talk to you.' Misa nodded and went to them. What she had forgotten was that Kiba understood dogs also. "What would the ANBU have to do with imouto? Akamaru do you know?" Akamaru responded with a whine.

"We need you to come on duty…" Kiba heard them with Akamaru's acute hearing. "Right now?" Misa whispered, her whispers were barely audible. "Yes, we aren't sure if hell is going to break loose." Misa chuckled a bit. "You were always the ones with jokes." "And you're always the one with compliments." 'What the heck are they talking about?' "But seriously though, do I have to?" "Yes…" Misa nodded and whispered Marco's name, who jumped into her arms Misa sank into the ground. Kiba stared in shock.

"Well look at this," Gaara began to speak, with his voice already blood thirsty, "I get to fight you earlier then planned." Nozomi went into a fighting stance, "Well don't you feel special!" But at that remark, Gaara's mouth formed a smirk. But before either one could say anything else, Genma started, "You both understand the rules, correct?" They nodded. In a way they were having a staring contest, neither one blinked.

Meanwhile Misa was back at the hotel room, getting ready. She already had the 'stupid' (according to Nozomi) black jumpsuit on top of her body armor.

"Let the battle commence." Everyone was quiet, you could possibly hear a pin drop to the floor. That was when Nozomi disappeared, collecting gasps around. Gaara frantically looked around, trying to sense her chakra, or anything for that matter. Everyone was look around the arena until three Nozomi poofed out of no where and surrounded Gaara in a circle. "Don't be deceived Gaara." Said clone #1. "These aren't regular clones." Clone #2 said. "You could cal them my own specialty per say." Said the finally clone. They then started smirking, but Gaara didn't care, he just conjured up his sand and concentrated attacking the clones. One clone vanished, and in its place was smoke. "Ah, ah, ah!" Then another three clones appeared, taking the vanished clone's place, making a total of five clones. "You see, here's one of the affects. You destroy one, another three take its place." Said #4.

Misa strapped in both of her arm guards on both of her arms, adding her dark green fingerless gloves with hand guards on each hand. She then got a wooden case from under her's and Nozomi's bed and opened it. Inside laid two katana, one was engraved the word 'Freedom', Misa's, and the other, 'Death', Nozomi. She picked up her katana and swung it around. "It's been a long time." She said to herself and sheathed to the katana's holder that was strapped to her back. And finally, after taking the mask from Marco, who was wearing it (for some bizarre reason), and put it on, her ANBU Captain Mask. ANBU leader Wolf was ready.

Right now Gaara was glaring, at what really, nothing. He was just ticked. 'What the fuck does she mean?!' So he tested his luck and concentrated once more and aimed at another clone. Of course you would've expected it to poof right? BOOM! Once, where the clone stood was a huge crater, enough to fit 15 freaking three story houses! "There goes affect number two." Said #2. Gaara was getting frustrated, he didn't know what would happen if he were to hit one. They would either explode on his face or it could lead to him getting hit in three different places. "Hmph, you're already out of ideas. Now that's just sad." "Shut up." Gaara then summoned his sand once more. What he didn't notice was just a few feet behind him, was another clone. Said clone the threw a shuriken and kunai, but his sand deflected that. But when he was distracted, another clone came up and kicked him square in the jaw.

Kankuro and Temari gasped. 'Shit, shit, shit!' Kankuro thought. Half of Gaara's face started crumbling away. The clone did a flip in mid-air and aimed for Gaara's head again. This time Gaara's sand grabbed her heel and threw her long the wall, it then exploded. 'Damn clones, next time poof instead of explode!' A huge whole appeared there. The rest of the Nozomi clones disappeared, save on standing right in front of him. "Let's end this!!!" Gaara finally took off his gourd and ran towards Nozomi, with punch ready. He sure was fast. "No more child's play!" As soon as he said that, Nozomi had caught his fist. They stared at each other.

"Damn! Why do they always do this?! Can't they just fight like normal people?!" "It's not as easy," Shikamaru started, "You have to devise a strategy all in your head and use it in order to win, fighting head to head isn't all that smart – or strong for that matter." "But they're hitting head to head!!" "That's because Gaara did first you baka!!!" Ino practically screamed in Naruto's ear."

-Back with the Homicidal people-

They had retreated a couple of yards away from each other, panting. "Damn you've made me really use lots of energy on this." –Liar- 'Shut up.'-silence- Gaara was the first to move, and he was heck as traveling faster then any shinobi, even Lee. Punches, kicks, as fast as Misa finishing her poki. They were both bleeding. 'Shit, shit, shit!!' Kankuro continued to silently curse to himself…' That was win they delivered the final blow, Nozomi Kicked Gaara upside his head, and Gaara after, a major kick punch to the gut. They both couldn't take the blows and fell to the ground. They were bleeding immensely; Gaara almost a pool, Nozomi just half as bad. But that didn't matter. With the demons inside of them, they were healing ten times the rate as a normal shinobi.

-With the Ho/Kazeage-

Noticing the observers were asleep, the Kazekage said, "Let's begin…" The bodyguards of the Kazekage ran forward and attacked the 3rd Hokage's only bodyguard…