Four days had passed since Liril had been placed in jail, and Kaname and Yuuki were both free. Yuuki continued to stay with Red, and after four days, Keoni showed up to the house.

With the three of them together, they headed out for the training field to meet Hideki.

Yuuki felt nervous as they got closer. She looked between Red and Keoni as she sighed deeply. "What if Crien is there?" She asked Red.

"Then she gets taken out as well." Red murmured.

Yuuki nodded. "Just promise you wont let me get hurt..."

Red nodded firmly before walking away from the other two. Keoni reached for the rope from his bag and tied Yuuki's hands together.

"Act as if you have no idea what is going on."

Yuuki sighed. "Crying needed?"

"If the mood seems right..."

Yuuki sighed deeply as she bit her lip. "Okay..."

"They do not know about Red, from what we understand..."

Yuuki nodded. "I get it. I know what I need to do for acting this out. Just make sure you don't fail..."

Keoni raised his eyes and looked at Yuuki before roughing pushing her forward, holding onto the rope that tied her hands. Just as Keoni had hoped, Hideki stood off in the distance, his arms crossed. When Keoni stood a mere ten yards away, he stopped with Yuuki.

"You're lucky Red hasn't come back yet. We have enough time to do the trade.."

Yuuki struggled in Keoni's hold. "L-Let me go!" She screamed, tears forming in her eyes.

Keoni roughly shoved her again. "Do you have what I want?"

"Are you really considering quitting?"

Keoni nodded firmly. "I'm sick and tired of you and all the others. I want out, and I'll only give you this girl if you give me what I want, and leave me be after this."

"And if we don't leave you be?"

"Then I'll kill the girl myself."

Yuuki's eyes widened. "B-But I thought you were on our side!"

"Shut up!" Keoni growled. "You are too naive, girl."

Yuuki sobbed as she lowered her head.

Hideki smirked and lowered his head. "Finally, Yuuki in my precious hands...while Red is off saving the village. He can do a lot of things, and take all the glory, but his one girl he will fail." Hideki reached into his back pocket and pull out a small metal box.

Yuuki's eyes widened as she glared at Hideki. "I'd sooner die!"

Hideki chuckled and shook his head. "I thought about killing you myself, just to make Kaito go , I've decided to make you my personal slave. I'll do anything to you that I wish, while Crien lets her little temper of hers out as well. You will not die, nor will you kill yourself - that I will ensure."

Yuuki glared at Hideki with disgust. "Kaito will not allow you to do anything to me!" She screamed. "You wont even get a chance to harm me!"

Hideki furrowed his brows. "My understanding was that Kaito wasn't even here. How will he know I have you? How will he know where I have taken you? And how will he get you back after you're long gone?"

Yuuki's eyes widened as she gulped. "I-I just know he will..." She growled.

Keoni growled and roughly shoved her once again. "Shut up, how many times do I need to say that?"

Yuuki turned her head to glare at Keoni - his shoving was starting to hurt her wrists a bit from the rope.

Hideki lowered his head and started to laugh. "You foolish idiots. You really think I'd fall for your game?" Hideki held up the metal box and looked up to meet Keoni's glare. "I know Kaito is here, and I know your plan." He chuckled. "You really thought you could pull a fast one, didn't you?"

Yuuki growled and cut the rope with the dagger as she narrowed her eyes. "Doesn't matter, Hideki. You wont leave alive." She hissed, holding the dagger up by her face. "And I'll get that Crien freak too! I was unable to use my arm for a month!"

Hideki smirked. "I love it when they fight back."

Hideki made a quickly few hand movements and smirked. "Oh girly..." The space around Hideki slowed completely down and he moved forward to inspect Yuuki. Her eyes could see him faintly, that he knew, but as she started to move to attack, Hideki could instantly dodge. He looked at her emerald eyes, filled with hatred towards him. Her arms were strong in the stance she stood as she began to turn towards him. Her hair blew slowly through the slowed wind, and Hideki walked a circle around the female that he so dearly wanted to destroy. His eyes caught the dagger in her hand, and he looked closely, dodging it as it came at his face. The gold piece of metal with engravings of snakes looked so strongly familiar, and he returned to where he was standing before, cutting the illusion.

"That dagger... I've seen it before." Hideki stated.

Yuuki glared at Hideki. "Like I care..."

Keoni stood by Yuuki's side now, his attempting at attacking Hideki failed during the illusion. Red still hung back in the woods.

"It seems..." Hideki furrowed his brows and clucked his tongue.

Just then, Red came running from the bush at Hideki. Hideki smirked and nodded at Red. Red growled as he pulled a kunai from his pouch and pointed it at Hideki. He was only a few feet from Hideki, determination pushing his adrenline, when Taro stepped in and turned Red away from Hideki. Red skidded to a stop and snapped back around to look at Taro's narrowed eyes.

Yuuki eyes widened as she looked between Red, Taro and Hideki. She suddenly felt uncomfortable.

Taro slowly stood straight, keeping his eyes on Red. "Kaito..."

"Really?" Red stood and through his arms up. "Seriously? Get over yourself Father! He's an enemy to the village - an enemy to your boss! You have-"

"Shut up." Taro's tone sounded so harsh, and it stopped Red in the dead of his sentence. He slowly turned around to meet Hideki's intrigued gaze. "You..."

"Well, well. This is quite the interesting reunion, isn't it, Taro...?" Hideki tossed the metal box in the air and caught it.

Taro's eyes narrowed as he continued to glare at Hideki. Out from the side of the forest, Rin came running out to stand beside Taro, fully dressed in her fighting clothes.

"Son..." Rin murmured.

Hideki shook his head. "As far as I'm concerned, I have no family."

From behind Hideki, Crien stepped from the bushes, a smirk at her lips as her arms were crossed over her chest. "So this is them?"

Hideki turned to glance over his shoulder. "Shut up, they are not my family, or can you not hear?"

Crien shrugged as her eyes glanced at Yuuki, smirking more.

Yuuki narrowed her eyes and held the dagger tighter in her hand as she clenched her jaw.

"I'm sorry, Hideki." Taro muttered and lowered his head. "For years, I focused so hard on you, I want you to succeed past what the Village could even comprehend, but it went above what I could control. It's haunted our family, and almost destroyed-"

"And I care, why?" Hideki yawned, as if to pretend he was bored.

"We can either do this one of two ways. You be placed under compltely surveillance while in Konoha's jail, or I kill you by my own hands."

Crien laughed. "Nice guy... wouldn't it suck, Hideki? Knwoing your own father spilt your blood?" She snickered.

Hideki growled and looked to Crien. "You really think this piece of garbage could put his hands on me? He taught me all he knew, and I've succeeded far beyond what he could imagine."

Crien smiled. "I know he wont. But the threat is funny to me."

"I don't want to have to, Hideki, but if it ensures Konoha, and all the other village's safety, then I must." Taro stated.

Crien chuckled. "Hideki, can we just get the girl and go? I'm bored here..."

Taro's jaw was set as he stepped forward and began to make a few handsigns.

"Give it up, Taro. I know techniques you're using." Hideki grunted and narrowed his eyes as he pushed Crien away from him. "You stay out of this fight. Get the girl and leave back to my place."

Crien shrugged as she licked her lips. "Sounds fine to me." She smirked.

As Crien began to walk towards Yuuki, Hideki reached out and grabbed her wrist to pull her back. "And she better be only injured enough to be in pain when I get back." He smirked.

Crien rolled her eyes. "I know, I know... Can I do this now or not?"

Hideki smirked and shrugged. "So eager..." Hideki quickly forced his lips to hers and turned back to Taro. "Submissive woman are truly the best, aren't they, Taro?"

Taro gritted his teeth and met Rin's questioning gaze. He let out his breathed noisely and turned back to Hideki.

"They truly are a nature to be grasped." Hideki forced his lips against hers again. "If only you had that much more control on your pathetic wife of yours, you'd really be near the top then."

Crien smirked against Hideki's lips before turning to look at Yuuki. "You'll learn how to be as I am..."

Yuuki narrowed her eyes. "Shut the hell up."

"Break her, Crien. Break her like I break you." Hideki turned and smirked at Yuuki.

Red growled and narrowed his eyes at Hideki. You won't be touching her...

Crien smirked at Red then to Yuuki before disappearing.

Yuuki's eyes widened as she quickly stood on her guard. Her heart raced as she tried to use what Red had taught her to sense Crien. Red quickly made his way to Yuuki, while Keoni assisted.

Hideki stood a few feet away from Taro and made the same handsigns he made. Rin was there as Taro's backup. There was no way that either Crien or Hideki could win with what they had.

Crien sighed as she sat in a tree in the shadows. "How to get her from them.. how to do it..." She groaned. "Men mke things to difficult..." She smirked as an idea hit her.

She quickly formed several hand seals before jumping down from the tree. Yuuki...

as she heard Crien's voice in her head.

Why not give in? Make things easier for us all~

No, I'd make things easier for your and Hideki!

Duh... that's kinda what I was getting at... doesn't matter. You're done.

Yuuki gasped as a pain shot through her scared arm from her father as a child. The dagger slipped from her hand as she dropped to her knee, gasping for breath.

"Yuuki?" Red glanced over his shoulder while standing his ground.

"R-Red!" She choked out. "A-Above you!" She screamed.

Crien came down from above the three, a kunai around each of her fingers as she smirked. Red quickly moved and jumped up after Crien with his kunai extended. Crien smirked as she threw several kunai at Red.

Red used the kunai in his hand to block the flying kunai, only two moving past him and ripping his shirt slightly. Crien smiled as she threw another few to distract Red as she threw one extra toward Yuuki who was still paralyzed on the ground.

Red blocked the ones flying at him while Keoni extended his arm and quickly caught the kunai in mid air.

"Check." Keoni smirked and whipped it back in Crien's direction.

Crien back flipped to dodge before landing on the ground gracefully. She smirked at Keoni. "We never ahve fought before, have we?"

Keoni smirked. "It never crossed my mind to fight someone as pathetic as you..."

Crien's eyes now narrowed as she hissed at Keoni. "You're the pathetic one!" She screamed before diappearing again.

Yuuki gasped as the pain subsided. "I hate that chick!" She screamed in irritation.

"Years of Hideki dumbing her down stripped her of any good comebacks." Keoni chuckled while pulling a kunai from his pouch and being onguard.

Yuuki pulled herself to her feet, picking her dagger back up. "Is she better or worse than you at Taijutsu, Red?"

Red shrugged. "Never really fought her before on this level." Red shrugged. "But the disappearing is becomign quite annoying."

Yuuki smirked. "Let's hope she's better. I have an idea."

Red shrugged. "As logn as you don't get yourself hurt." He half-heartedly smiled.

Yuuki shook her head. "This actually keeps me in the back. I need Crien to go after you..."

Red closed his eyes and focused on Crien. He could feel her prescence coming from the left and he began to head that way.

Yuuki smiled before facing Keoni. "What are your specialties?"

"Is that really your business?" Keoni raised his brow. "Don't you worry about me, doll."

Yuuki rolled her eyes. "I need to know... do you want to kill her or not?"

Keoni shrugged. "I'm actually not a shinobi." He smirked and laughed, rubbing the back of his neck. "I'm a pretty good actor, aren't I?"

Yuuki smirked. "Could've said that earlier then." She sighed. "Be Red's back-up then, alright?"

Keoni shook his head. "Crazy." Keoni looked over at Red and quickly ran after him.

"I'm not crazy..." Yuuki muttered as she bent down on one knee and began forming hand seals. She closed her eyes as she slammed her right hand into the ground, water forming around her fingers. "Alright..." She smirked. "I hope I've improved with this..."

Yuuki pulled her hand back and formed a few more seals before a snake of water formed. She smirked at the creature and nodded firmly. The snake slithered off after Crien.

Crien felt a fair amount of chakra get released from Yuuki's direction, but was too foucused on how to get rid of the two boys headed toward her. "Go away!" She hissed.

Taro strucked his hand out, but Hideki blocked it. The space around them felt like a mingled atmosphere of seperate illusions, both being blocked by each other.

"I'm not just an old man, Hideki. I'm still one of the Hokage's right hand men; I still train all the time." Taro glared.

Hideki just smirked. "I still have the advantage."

"And your Mother is still waiting to intercede."

"Keep that pathetic woman out of this."

"She's your Mother."

"She's everything but." Hideki hissed and narrowed his eyes.

Rin gritted her teeth, forcing back the tears. She knew that for the sake of the Village, Hideki needed to die. There was no chance of Hideki's heart being changed, and they all knew that; Taro knew that.

Crien sighed as she jumped over the two boys and headed toward Yuuki who was standing, waiting for Crien. A smirk fell over both female's faces.

"You're mine!" Crien hissed as she tackled Yuuki, a kunai to her throat.

Yuuki merely smirked up at Crien. "Correction... you're Mya's!"

The water snake appeared behind Crien and grabbed her shoulder, piercing it. Crien screamed out as she struggled to ger free, however her hands just went through the snake. Yuuki smiled as she moved to her feet, taking the dagger and pressing it to Crien's neck.

"I've never murdered before..." Yuuki smirked.

"You won't kill me!" Crien hissed.

Yuuki closed her eyes and sighed. "That's were you're wrong."

Crien's eyes widened as the dagger quickly sliced through her neck. She choked on her own blood as the snake dissipated and dropped Crien's body to the ground. Yuuki kept her eyes shut, recognizing the noise of the flesh being torn apart by the blade.

"R-Red!" Yuuki screamed, not daring to move from her place.

Red and Keoni made their way back to Yuuki. Crien laid bleeding from her neck on the ground infront of Yuuki. Red let out a breath of relief as he pulled Yuuki to him and embraced her carefully.

Hideki's eyes diverted from Taro to the scene behind him. He could see Crien's body laying lifelessly on the ground, blood spilling out aound her. He brought his eyes back to Taro and quickly dodged his attack before running over to Crien. Red pulled Yuuki away, and Keoni moved back as well.

"C..." Hideki let out a hiss and knelt down to take in the full image. His breathing began to thicken and he continued to look at Crien, feeling as if it were just an illusion.

"You idiot!" Hideki hissed and turned to look at Yuuki. "Y-You killed her?"

Yuuki wasn't used to someone saying that to her, but she nodded in reply.

Hideki shook his head and stood. "No, this is Kaito's doing.."

Red narrowed his eyes and shook his head. "This isn't an illusion, Hideki." Red growled.

Hideki turned back to Crien and waited a few moments before shrugging. "She was worthless to me, you know. I didn't care what happened to her - I knew she would eventually fail me." Hideki gritted his teeth.

"We all know you're lying." Taro stated, stepping closer to Hideki slowly.

Hideki shook his head and glanced down at Crien's body. "She was only a personal slave - Yuuki will easily replace her."

Taro shook his head. "You can't fool your family, Hideki. We all know you were inlove with her."

Hideki let out a howling laugh. "Me? In love with someone as pathetic as this?"

"You don't honestly think that of her..." Yuuki murmured. "It's clear in your eyes."

Hideki's face darkened as he turned back to Yuuki. "Shut your mouth." Hideki hissed. "As said, you can just as easily replace her..."

Yuuki shook her head. "I wont be yours, and you cannot replace Crien... you will realize that soon enough..."

Hideki quickly pulled a kunai from his pocket and threw it in Yuuki's direction before she could respond. Keoni reached out and grabbed the kunai before whipping it back. As Hideki reached out to retrieve the kunai in mid air, Rin ran from the side and shoved the sword that was in her hands into his side.

His eyes widened and he gasped. The kunai flew past his face, leaving a slice along his right cheek. He tried to breath in, but couldn't get a sufficient enough oxygen to breath well. He slowly turned to look into Rin's tear filled eyes.

"You made it this way, Hideki..." She whispered.

Hideki coughed and blood spilled from his mouth. "R..." He couldn't get the words out and he gaped again.

Rin let the tears fall frmo her eyes and she wrapped her arms around Hideki's body as it slumped. She couldn't hold back the sobs that shook her body anymore. Yuuki clenched her jaw and buried her face in Red's chest, unable to watch anymore.

Hideki coughed up more blood, still trying to speak, and too weak to push Rin back. Rin held Hideki closer and buried her face into his neck. "I love you..." She muttered and kissed his cheek.

Taro slowly made his way over and placed his hand on Rin's shoulder. She slowly let Hideki's body fall from her arms and Taro knelt down to pull Rin into his arms. She continued to sob and Taro tried his hardest to hold back his tears while he stared in awe at his son's now lifeless body.

Red cleared his throat and diverted his eyes as he held Yuuki close as well.