Dawn of War

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Scene change or flashbacks

Scene changes within flashbacks

Demon talking

Demon talking within their jinchurrikki's head or a demon talking through their jinchurrikki

Samurai, Friends, and Kage

The two samurai stayed in their stance for a while. Ryuuko disappeared in a second and appeared right in front of Shukuru.

"Zanganken(Stone Cleaving Sword)!" Ryuuko shouted as he sliced up with a chakra infused blade.

"Starting with the same technique?" Shukuru grinned, jumping back a bit.

"Zanganken Ni-no-Tachi(Stone Cleaving Sword, Second Strike)!" a shout was heard behind Ryuuko. Shukuru was sliced across the chest, although light. The first Ryuuko grinned as he was unharmed and disappeared in a puff of smoke. "I've gotten better, Shukuru."

"Still a simple strike," Shukuru answered. "I can defeat you easily if that's your best."

"Not even close," Ryuuko grinned as he disappeared again. "Reimeikan(Thunderclap Sword)!" Ryuuko was now behind Shukuru as his blade sliced into his back. The blade was infused with cackling lightning as he drew back and sheathed before slamming his fist into the small of Shukuru's back. "Tetsu Raikou(Iron Lightning)!" Silver lightning streaks sprang from the back of Shukuru as he was sent hurtling across the arena.

Shukuru landed with a crash as he coughed up blood and let it streak the arena a bit. There was a small indent where he had landed, but he still rose to his feet slowly. "You bastard..."

"Are you ready to quit, Shukuru?" Ryuuko asked with a slight grin. "He made a hand seal and pointed above Shukuru. "Ishigachan(Stone Slamming)!" The area of the arena that was cracked up tore apart and made a stone large enough to crush Shukuru's head. Then it dropped as if it was weighted down by anvils.

Shukuru gasped and rolled out of the way, just before the stone smashed into the ground. Shukuru looked back to see Ryuuko gone already. "Doryusen(Earth Dragon Strike)!" Ryuuko shouted from near the stone. He flipped in the air and with the dull side of his blade, struck the flying rocks in the direction of Shukuru.

Shukuru was again surprised by the attack and just barely dodged out of the way. He rolled back and suddenly pick up his blade to point it at Ryuuko to see him gone again. "Shiagari(Finish)!" Ryuuko was above Shukuru and spun once to bring his blade down. Shukuru leapt back again as the place he had been standing crashed into a small crater.

"Fast..." Shukuru muttered.

"Seems you're getting tired, Shukuru," Ryuuko smirked. "Maybe you should quit while you're ahead."

"Don't think I'm through, Ryuuko," Shukuru returned to using his evil smirk as he rose to his feet. He placed his blade into the sheathe again and went into his stance again. "You have no clue how far I can go." With that, Shukuru began to glow a light red as his eyes went completely crimson. His skin turned a darker shade and his cloths became darker in appearance.

"I'll end this now," Shukuru said in a much darker voice. He disappeared and appeared on the opposite side of Ryuuko with his blade drawn. Ryuuko had his brought out now too, but just out of the sheathe. A slight crack went across the sword and Ryuuko cursed under his breath.

"You won't defeat me, Shukuru," Ryuuko answered before turning around and drawing his blade out completely. He pointed it to the side and then moved it to point at Shukuru. "I'll show you the true strength of the Ikazuchi's style." His blade began to glow blue with chakra as the crack was filled in with a darker blue.

"Finally, here's the challenge," Shukuru answered with an evil grin as his blade glowed a light crimson color. "I can go all out." The two disappeared and appeared in the center, clashed against each other. They disappeared and appeared again to the left. They disappeared again and reappeared to the right. They disappeared once again and appeared above the initial clash to glare at each other with shining eye, Shukuru's red and Ryuuko's blue.

"Ryuuko..." Naruto gasped out.

"His strength..." Sasuke began, but stopped himself with a slight grin.

"They are evenly matched..." Haku continued.

"No, Ryuuko's losing," Gaara answered.

"What!?" Naruto, Haku, and Yamato turned to Gaara in surprise.

"How can you say that?" Yamato asked.

"He's completely correct, sadly," Kakashi answered, his Sharingan showed. "The sword...it's failing him. If this keeps up at this pace..."

Ryuuko and Shukuru struck again, but this time, Ryuuko's sword snapped and he was slashed by the crimson colored blade. Ryuuko's eyes went wide as he watched the shards falling from the two pieces of his blade. He turned his head down to see the giant gash left on his chest.

Ryuuko stumbled back a bit before coughing up blood. He grabbed for his chest to stop the bleeding, but it wouldn't stop and he fell to his knees.

"This is it, cousin," Shukuru grinned. "The Oni style can finally show you that the Ikazuchi are inferior with you as a leader."

"Not yet," Ryuuko answered as he got to his feet. He grabbed hold of the air in front of him, but it suddenly burst forth in a bright blue light. As it ended, a blade was seen in his grasp. The blade itself was blue in color and the hilt had golden trim. "Konpeki Joukai(Azure Heaven)."

"The...legendary blade?" Shukuru asked. "This...is the blade...of the Ikazuchi...The Joukai styles...ultimate weapon..." Shukuru held out his hand. "And I have its brother!" A similar blade appeared in a red flash of light except the blade was red in color and had black trim on the handle. "Shinku Jigoku(Crimson Hell)."

Ryuuko ran forward with blinding speed and slashed at Shukuru, but he blocked and flipped away. The two stood there, staring at each other for a while.

"You cannot defeat me, Ryuuko," Shukuru said. "I will avenge my family."

"They were evil...going to Orochimaru for power," Ryuuko replied, blood trickling from his mouth. Shukuru planted his feet hard into the ground as it began to crack under the pressure. Red lights began to fill into the blade and a crimson glow grew along the blade. Ryuuko held his out and blue light began to have the same affect on it.

"This will be the final attack, Ryuuko," Shukuru began. "You lie about my parents...and this will be the end of my vengence and life."

"You will honestly bring yourself to death just to kill me?" Ryuuko asked.

"Without a second thought," Shukuru answered as his light began to flow in more. The two continued to gather into their blades before launching at each other. The blades were shining brilliantly now. The two continued to come towards each other with blinding speed before there was a bright flash and Shukuru's chakra enhanced sword became more powerful.

"Joukai Reqium(Heaven's Reqium)!" Ryuuko shouted before slashing forward. The two blades met and a brilliant flash was the result. Everyone shielded their eyes except for Naruto and Sasuke, one eager to see Ryuuko alive and the other to see a threat dead. The Leader continued to watch, completely unaffected by the flash.

The flash finally began to die out as the others began to look to see the victor. Both samurai were enlocked against each other, but Shukuru's blade had blood across it. A long cut went up his right arm and Ryuuko hadn't touch Shukuru. Shukuru grinned at that.

"And this is the end...cousin..." Shukuru suddenly spat out blood as he fell to his knees. Ryuuko closed his eyes as he turned his blade the other way and dug it into the ground, going through Shukuru's body on the way.

"Damn it...annoying bastard..." Ryuuko muttered as he fell sideways. The sword continued to glow blue as Ryuuko opened his eyes to see Naruto jumping onto the stage to get him. "Naruto...Raikage...I want you..." Here, he stopped to cough out a bit of blood. "Take that sword...give it...to Shinji...Tell him...I love him...and I've always been proud of him..."

"Ryuuko..." Naruto looked down, a tear forming in his eye. "I'll do it for you..." His tears began to roll down his face as he looked down at his friend. "I'll tell him...and give him that blade for you."

"Thank you...but one more thing, Raikage-sa-" Ryuuko coughed more blood again, but the grinned a little bit. "Raikage-sama...If you die...I'm going to...kick your ass back out of hell..."

"Don't worry, I won't die," Naruto grinned back. Ryuuko began to cough more as he spat out blood. "Ryuuko!" Naruto quickly went down for him as he finished.

"Goodbye...friends..." Ryuuko managed to get out before he closed his eyes.

"Ryuuko..." Naruto muttered as he closed his own eyes. He suddenly shot his head up and opened his eyes to see Leader. "I promise I won't die. And I never break my promises."

"Well, who's next?" Leader grinned. Naruto couldn't make out most of it because of the shadows and the hood of his cloak, but he hated that grin the most. No matter what he could see, that grin made his blood boil. Naruto gritted his teeth as he hoisted up Ryuuko and walked back off.

"I'd like a go!" Tobi shouted, enthusiastically as he jumped up to the arena.

"It's my turn then," Kakashi answered the call, jumping up as well. He kept his headband up so his Sharingan was showing. "I'll put an end to you, bastard. How dare you impersonate my best friend."

"Who was impersonating?" Tobi asked. His face couldn't have features on it, but if it did, Kakashi would have sworn he smirked then.

"I'll kill you," Kakashi stated, simply.

"If you can, that is," Tobi answered as his face began to morph into Obito's again. "But would you really strike your best friend?"

"Obito..." Kakashi clenched his fist as he went back to the orange mask. At this, Kakashi shot forward. He landed a punch to Obito's stomach and then a knee followed it, sending him into the air slightly. Kakashi ended with a haymaker, sending him into the ground.

"Damn, Kakashi..." Kakashi's eyes widened at the voice. As he looked up, the orange mask cracked off to show Obito's face again. "What the hell was that for?"

"Obito..." Kakashi said again. "Why are you with the Akatsuki...?"

"They helped me survive," Obito answered. He got to his feet and dusted himself off. "But if you want to hurt me like that, I better even that up." Obito went forward and landed a hard punch to Kakashi's stomach. Then he disappeared and reappeared behind him to kick the back of his knee. He disappeared again and appeared to axe kick Kakashi's head into the ground.

Obito flipped over Kakashi and sighed. "Is this the extent of your ability?" Kakashi rose up and looked back, but his eyes were blank. "Ah, don't look at me like that! I thought we're friends!" Obito smirked and appeared right in front of him. He gave him a hard uppercut, followed by a series of punches and kicks to his stomach. As he finished the attacks, he brought his elbow back and elbowed Kakashi in the chin, sending him into the air.

'Obito...how do I fight my friend...' Kakashi thought to himself, remaining blank. 'How is he even...alive...Edo Tensai? No, he wouldn't have his emotions like that...' Obito was already in the air with Kakashi and gave him a series of punches to his stomach again. Obito grabbed Kakashi's throat and brought himself behind him to headbutt him. After that, Obito grabbed the back of Kakashi's vest and brought his body back into his knee.

"Kakashi!" Obito shouted. "You have to be better than this!" Obito performed another haymaker, sending Kakashi flying into the ground again. This time, he followed with some handseals and shot out several fireballs to blast into where Kakashi landed. As the fireballs ended, Obito reared back and let out one gigantic fireball to blast over Kakashi's area.

'That's it!'

As the flames ended, smoke rose from the scorched area. Obito watched with a satisfied smirk as he landed a little ways from it.

'I'll defeat him here...'

Obito looked back at Leader and yelled out,"It's over! He won't get up after that!"

'I'll defeat Obito...no...Tobi...' Kakashi shot out of the smoke, a Raikiri already in place. He ran head on and jammed it straight through Tobi's chest. "Shut up, you impersonater." Kakashi stood with his Sharingan blazing as Obito looked back in shock. With that, Tobi fell from Kakashi's blood covered hand and Kakashi turned away without a second look. 'It's over now...old friend...'

"Kakashi..." Yamato stared wide eyed. "It was...so quick..."

"What are you talking about?" Kakashi asked as his eye arched in the form of a smile. "He wasn't that tough for an Akatsuki member."

"How can you act that happy?" Haku asked. Naruto smiled back at Kakashi.

"Same as always..." Naruto muttered as Leader looked back at his remaining fighters. Deidara, Kisame, and Itachi remained.

"I suggest a double match," Kisame shouted. "I want to fight the Mizukage and Kazekage two-on-two with me and Deidara!"

"That sounds good, yeah..." Deidara agreed.

"What!?" Naruto shouted.

"I want to fight you one-on-one," Haku stated.

"No, we're having two-on-two, they already made the arrangements," Leader answered with a grin.The two Akatsuki members jumped up and Haku flipped up to the stage while Gaara swirled up with his sand, although hesitant to fight two-on-two.

"I'll kill the Mizukage if you can keep the Kazekage busy, yeah," Deidara informed Kisame. "Let's go." Kisame shot forward, bringing out the Samehada. Gaara brought up a wall to block the first strike, but Kisame went for a punch after that. The sand blocked that blow too and Haku threw a couple of senbon to seperate the two.

"Your fight is with me, Kisame," Haku stated.

"It is two-on-two, Mizukage-sama," Kisame answered with a grin. "I can attack either of you." Kisame's water clone popped up before Haku and slashed down, but Haku flipped up and came down against Kisame. A ice mirror appeared just before Kisame could slash and Haku went into it.

"This is my new technique," Haku's voice came from thin air. "I can come from anywhere." Haku appeared behind Deidara and struck his right arm with a senbon. "And that has a numbing poison. Don't try to fight without either arm." Haku shifted back to the mirror before Deidara could kick at him.

Kisame went back towards Gaara, but a mirror suddenly appeared and he went through, unable to stop himself. As he stopped, the mirror disappeared behind him and he found himself standing atop a lake with Haku in front of him. Upon looking more, this was not even a lake, but water in the middle of nothing.

"This is my ice world," Haku answered. "I come here as I pass through my mirrors. No time will pass while we fight here. Now, come at me." Kisame shook off his surprise and charged at Haku.

Akatsuki Arena...

Deidara and Gaara were left on the arena and Deidara grinned as he moved his right arm. He shook off the effect of the poison and pulled out some clay. He dodged a sudden lash of sand coming at him and let his hand chew on the clay. He continued to dodge the sand as his hand made work of the clay. After a while, Deidara threw out several small bird-like clay figures. They instantly took flight and flew towards Gaara.

Gaara let up his sand wall, but the birds just exploded and the sand wall flew off in different directions. Deidara sighed as he made several more small figured and knelt down to the ground. Then he disappeared and appeared in front of Gaara, unleashing a series of punches and kicks that the sand wall blocked. He backflipped away afterwards and made more small bird's fly out from his palm to blast at the sand wall.

Another bit of sand flew forward and Deidara jumped out of the way of that. Gaara continued making his sand fly at Deidara, but it never hit. Gaara finally made a handseal and his sand retracted to him. It became harder as it formed a spear and Gaara ran forward, spear in hand. Shukaku's ultimate attack. Gaara plunged the spear forward, but Deidara jumped atop the spear and grinned as he let a couple of spiders fall.

"Goodbye, Kazekage." The spiders instantly exploded with a couple more on his lower areas as Deidara backflipped away from him.

Ice World...

Kisame slashed downward and struck only the water as Haku had flipped over him. He went to slash him again, but Haku placed his palms on Kisame's elbow.

"Aihari(Ice Shard)," Haku said as a shard made of ice shot though Kisame's elbow. Kisame let out a shout of pain as Haku melted into the water. Kisame whirled around in rage to find Haku, but he had to jump back as more ice shards shot from beneath him. Kisame grinned at that.

"Got you!" He dove underwater and saw Haku swimming away. Kisame shot for him immediatly, but was greeted Haku suddenly disappearing into water once again. Kisame's eyes widened at the revelation. 'Shit!' was the only thing he could thing.

Akatsuki Arena...

The smoke was still clearing as Deidara watched for any signs of the sand user. Subaku no Gaara. The one that had taken his left arm years ago. Suddenly, sand shot out and grabbed hold of Deidara's right shoulder. It closed tightly and Deidara screamed out in pain as his shoulder was crushed, losing all use of his right arm.

Gaara shot out of the smoke and rose above Deidara with an uncaring glare. "You lose, Deidara."

He was met with Deidara's laughter. "So you would think, little kage..." Deidara began to beep at that and grinned. "I am a bomb myself." Deidara shot forward at that. "Art is a blast, yeah." Just at that moment, Kisame shot out of a ice mirror above Deidara, a shard of ice protruding from his stomach. Kisame landed down on top of Deidara, stopping him and Gaara quickly covered it with sand before Deidara exploded.

Haku leapt out nimbly to land on his back. "That's it for those two," he panted. "Damn...too close to my limit..." Haku went to his knee, but Gaara's sand helped him. The two moved back to the edge of the arena and jumped down.

"Seems I'll be next, Leader-sama," Itachi announced, hopping to the stage.

"I've been waiting for this, Itachi..." Sasuke jumped up as well.

"Oh, little brother," Itachi began. "How far have you gotten in such little time?"

"Don't even refer to me as family, scumbag!" Sasuke shouted, his eyes full of rage.

"Well, then, let's see how far you have come, Sasuke," Itachi replied, slipping into a stance. Sasuke slipped into his own stance and the fight had begun.

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Stone Cleaving Sword-A basic of the Jouken style.The samurai infuses chakra into the blade and slashes from his sheathe with enough power to cleave a stone in two.

Stone Cleaving Sword, Second Strike-The same attack as the first, except it is done from behind another person to strike the opponent with no injuries to the one it is done behind.

Iron Lightning-A technique where the user slams his fist into his opponent.The opponent feels no pain until the jutsu is shouted and a burst of lightning shoots out in a silver color.

Stone Slamming-A stone appears, made of the debris in the area.Then it drops to crush the opponent.

Earth Dragon Strike-The user uses his sword to fling debris at his opponent.Then, following up with Finish, the user appears above the opponent and brings his blade down with enough power to match the Stone Cleaving Sword.

Ice Shard-A shard of ice shoots from the user's palms.

Sasuke:Damn you!!

Itachi:Oh...what a surprise, brother...

Sasuke:You'll die for your crimes!

Next Chapter:Sharingan Awakening and Fox Revelations

Sasuke:Die, bastard!