Lol I decided to get this chapter out as soon as possible for the more anxious readers lol, I was going to be mean and put out the filler chapter to keep you guys in suspense but then I thought 'Nah, too much effort cuz I need to do some finishing touches on them and this was already written.' So yah here's chapter 25 of Akatsuki's flower

Oh yah on another note halfdemon-kai mentioned something important to me that I never really thought about or did very slightly until now…Well I know that priestesses lose their powers in matrimony but that's because they're not virgins anymore since you have to consummate the marriage…but for some reason I had the thought stuck in my brain that it was only the ceremony that would take away the powers so I thought 'Oh shit…a little late for marriage to effect her powers…' so it's my mistake…damn Mountain Dew XD hopefully it won't ruin anything.

"Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." –Charles William Dement.

and another note…(I don't really read what I write unless I'm writing it then I read as I post it…) but there's an OC here that's my friends and I put her in cuz she's my friend and that she moved recently so yeah. and she's got a different personality than most other random Ocs in my opinion.

'Inner Kari.'

things that need emphasis

Other worldly voices

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

As soon as Kari went into that position, sound shinobi began to attack. Kisame began to take care of the ones that were further away since his sword would steal Kari's chakra. Itachi handled the ones who escaped from Kisame.

'Kari, shrine maiden of the Toshikawa clan prays for the assistance of Susanowo-no-Mikoto to give me strength and help me fight in battle so I can protect all that is precious to me!' she concentrated all of her will into the arrow in her hands and 10 minutes later nothing was happening.

'What's taking her son long?' Itachi and Kisame thought simultaneously.

'We won't be able to hold them off much longer.' Itachi grimly thought.

Meanwhile Naomi, Deidara and Satori left the arena to help everyone else outside.

"Well this is just great." Satori sarcastically remarked at the 3 giant snakes. "How much explosives do you have Deidara-san?"

Deidara began to rummage around in his cloak, it was lack with detailed red birds on it, he called it Akatori "I have a large Ziploc bag full of clay, a couple of canteens of nitro-glycerine, some cherry bombs, 20 sticks of dynamite, paper clips, some exploding tags…road flare…un…" Deidara emptied the contents of his pockets.

"I love the smell of roasted snake in the morning." Satori commented.

"Eww.." Naomi added "Oh! Satori made a funny!"

"Hehe…yeah…" Satori groaned, "Deidara you take the one of the left, Naomi take the one in the middle and I'll take the one on the right."

"But I can't fight a snake!" Naomi yelled.

"Fine then us men will kill them all un!" and they left.

Naomi sighed and sat down despite all the fighting going on. She just hit enemy shinobi with some custom made fans (Courtesy of Ten-Ten and Mamoru)

Satori ran up to his snake and began to slash on with his sword, but all it did was annoy the hell out of the snake. He dodged a fanged lunge and put some chakra into his sword. The snake caught Satori's arm with is tail and brought Satori around and since Satori was bound he couldn't free himself and was about to get eaten. Suddenly Deidara sent a clay bird their way and it exploded on contact with the snake's tail, just below where Satori was. The snake roared and threw its head back in agony and Satori used that chance to try and slice his head off. I say try because his sword didn't go all the way through. It did hit the 2 main blood vessels in the neck and broke it's vertebrae.

"What do you say un?" Deidara asked Satori.

"You should have come sooner." Satori answered.

"Nothing about 'Oh Deidara-kun you're my hero un! You saved me!'" Deidara pouted.

"Nope." Satori answered. The Konoha shinobi were dealing with the last snake for Deidara blew up the other one just before by pouring Nitro-glycerine down it's throat.

'Why isn't it working!?' Kari screamed in her head. Her hands began to shake as a lone tear began to fall. 'I'm so lost right now…Hokage-sama please be ok…'

Itachi and Kisame were fending off the ninja fairly well but while Itachi was fighting one, another one ran in and Itachi wasn't able to stop him fromm attacking Kari as he still had to fell the shinobi he was currently fighting with. The most he could do was let her know what was happening "KARI!! BEHIND YOU!!"

Kari broke out of her thoughts and turned herself around to guard from the attack and as she did the arrow she had lit up with deep purple light that had glimmers of other colors in it and as the shinobi made his move the arrow stabbed him and he exploded. "I…I did it…"

'Toshikawa Kari…you have learned a forbidden spiritual art of priests. By doing this you've used up part of your soul. Eventually the soul heals itself but only if there's more than 75 percent. Only use it if someone close to you is dying or if your whole village is in trouble. Keep using it and your soul will disappear, then you will die. Now put the arrow on the string and dispel the barrier.'

Kari did as the foreign voice in her head ordered and shot at the barrier. After a couple of moments the barrier disappeared.

"Thank you Kari. You and Kisame stay here." Itachi turned to Kisame "Do your best to keep her away." He muttered and disappeared before Kari could say a word of protest.

"Well, we can't stay here." Kisame began. Kari sighed.

'This isn't jut about him!' Kari screamed in her head. 'Orochimaru hurt us too! But we need to formulate a plan first!' Kari reluctantly let Kisame take her away. 'I'll be back!'

Jiraiya landed on the last snake with his frog summon. They were now trying to kill the sound ninja. Kakashi and Gai were with them.

"The barrier is gone!" Kakashi said astonished.

"Good, they did it." Satori mumbled.

"Hey Satori you homo!" a voice called in a bantering tone "Where's your sister?"

"Don't let it be her…" Satori muttered, he turned to see a girl who had very short black hair with bangs that were past her collarbone. Her eyes were a green-grey, she had a swirl tattoo on her forehead and had a ninja mask on that was baby blue that had pink hearts and red swirls. She was wearing a blue corset with a black hoodie and jean caprices. "Damn."

"Wow this place is a mess..hey! Hottie with the porn, what issue is that?" the new girl asked.

"Volume 3." Kakashi answered not even looking at her.

"Well anyways, lend it to me when you're done. My name's Tori, don't wear it out."

'Aw man un! Sasori, Satori and Tori are too confusing un!' Deidara groaned in his head.

"Here come some more." Gai alerted them and did a battle cry.

Tori bit her thumb and slid her bleeding thumb across a foreign scroll then did some hand signs and summoned her hell hounds, who got rid of the offending ninja. "So where's Kari homo?"

Itachi walked on the rooftop where the barrier stood, the 4 who cast the barrier were unconscious. The Hokage's dead corpse stood a couple of feet ahead. 'So he did it.' Itachi walked past the sandaime's body to where a figure stood a couple feet beyond waiting for him. The 3 ANBU who were there the whole time came over.

"So he really is dead then." The leader spoke sombrely.

"Get him out of here and make sure no one sees. I'll deal with him." Itachi ordered.

"Yes Itachi-sama." And the 3 ANBU took the Hokage's body away.

"So Uchiha Itachi the time has come at last. Only one of us will survive." Orochimaru began as he faced Itachi.

"It certainly won't be you." Itachi answered.

Kari and Kisame were walking down a flight of stairs, the only sound was their feet hitting the floor. Kari suddenly let out a groan and was grasping at the rail for support.

"Kari-chan! Are you ok?! Are you going into labour?" Kisame asked.

"No Kisame-kun, I'm only-"

"STAY IN!! IT'S NOT YOUR TIME YET!!" He yelled at her stomach.

"Dude…I'm only 5 months, one of them just gave me a good kick."

"YOU CAN'T BE BORN TODAY!! TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY!!"

"Your birthday was in March, it's August now."

"EVERYDAY'S MY BIRTHDAY!!"

"Do you want me to sick Deidara on you?"

"No I'll be good."

Kari had one last thing to say "But they were conceived on your birthday."

Kisame paled "you mean you and Itachi…" he paused and had a disgusted look "DID THAT ON MY BIRTHDAY!?"

"Dude…" Kari began but Kisame passed out.

"Well now I can go rescue Itachi from the Micheal Jackson wannabe." Kari muttered as she walked back up the stairs.

END!!

Well sorry to end it there but that's where I ended it when I wrote it XD Please review, and all that jazz and I'll try to get the next chapter up whenever I can lol.

Sakura Sama 101 signing off.