The Last Battles!

Hanabi Hyuga stood above her defeated Uchiha opponent. She arrived at the top of her tower, faced her opponent and defeated him all very quickly. The Uchiha didn't have time to attack, defend of anything, since Hanabi's Gentle Fist was both swift and deadly. Now the tower belonged to Hanabi, as she stood in the large hall often where the Uchiha guardians resided. She then proceeded to pressing the microphone to connect to the others.

"Progress report." She said and with some noise on the radio, waited for a response from the others. A second noise came, thankfully.

"Two Uchihas were defeated by Shikari Nara and Ayane Hotaru..." Hanabi could hear the voice of Shikari speak. "I assisted your student when she was in dire need, and she delivered the final blow. The two of us are together and await commands, over."

"Well done, over." Hanabi replied. Then there came an extra noise.

"Tatsuno Ichihara here. I too have defeated an Uchiha and await orders, over." Said the voice of Tatsuno. A third noise came.

"Haruhi Uzumaki, here. Still no sign of Takai." Haruhi gave a reply to with a long winded huff. "Still...climbing the stairs, over..."

"Hah!" Ayane could be heard. "Having trouble, Haruhi?"

"Shut up!" She responded.

"Enough!" Hanabi intervened. A fourth noise was heard.

"Maruya Mana speaking. I too am still climbing the tower." Maruya reported. "I have belief that this may be the Uchiha's defense mechanism to wear down foes for their higher ranks, over."

"Why wasn't I told about this?" Haruhi said through the microphone.

"Because you wanted to go after Takai, which happened to be the tallest tower?" Hanabi replied. "Over."

"Ahhh, over."

"Such a drag, over..." After a while, the Inuzuka twins and Konohamaru didn't respond.

"Hitsuin, Kitsuin, Sarutobi, report, over." Hanabi ordered. There was still no answer. Until, the fifth noise came.

"Hitsuin, here!" She said in distress. "Things aren't going well with me and my brother! We're being beaten by an Uchiha duo, over!" And in the room where the Inuzuka twins and their puppies were, they were being overwhelmed by the two, almost identical Uchiha pair. Their attack style was like a wild dance, but their was one aspect: it was completely in rhythm and symmetry as they used wild Taijutsu attacks to beat up the four.

"Your no match..." Uhen said.

"For our beautiful combination." Sahou said in rhythm. They charged once again, jumping in complete sync for an aerial attack. The twins dodged, and thankfully evaded the attack, and what was better for them, the Uchiha duo landed out of sync, something Sahou apprehended Uhen for. "You idiot! You caused our formation to go off! How can you be so stupid!"

"I'm not the stupid one, stupid!" Uhen argued.

"Now's our chance!" Kitsuin said. His puppy, Okami, jumped up and transformed into a wilder version of Kitsuin, whilst Kitsuin mimicked. "You ready, sis?"

"Ready!" Hitsuin said, who took the left flank, with her and Koinu in the same state. The four attacked by charging in a spinning formation.

"Combination Jutsu!" They commanded. "Four-Beast Fang Over Fang!" The wild attack made a direct hit to the distracted foes as the two dog-users landed unharmed. Sahou recovered with a growl, but smiled, keeping his composture.

"I see you have some nice symmetry movements too." He said with a grin.

"Our moves must have inspired you." Uhen said with a chuckle.

"Heck no!" Kitsuin growled.

"Our father is the greatest dog-user in the entire Leaf Village!" Kitsuin said. "We learned the best from him, and his favourite pet, Akamaru!" Hitsuin remembered the time far back in the past. A younger Hitsuin and Kitsuin had finally gotten their very own Ninja Dogs, from their father and mother, Kiba and Hinata Inuzuka. Kiba had grown more tougher over the years, along with more gentler towards Hinata, after they married; he wore a Jounin's jacket, with a grey shirt and pants. Hinata has grown much more beautiful, with her long dark pale blue hair grown even longer and tied in a very long plait. She wore a white and blue jacket with deep blue pants; this was mostly her casual attire if she wasn't on missions or important business.

"They're the best, mom and dad!" Kitsuin cheered as the tinier puppies licked them wildly.

"Now, children." Hinata gently soothed. "You need to pick a name for the little ones."

"Name?" Hitsuin asked in question and began thinking of a name. "Puppy will do!" The little puppy grew a little nervous at the name.

"I've already chosen my name! You'l be Okami!" Kitsuin said happily. The little dog, now called Okami, licked his face feverishly.

"That's a cool name!" Hitsuin jeered. Kiba came forward and lifted Hitsuin and her puppy up.

"Puppy sounds like a good name, but what else can we call her?" Kiba said with a smile. Hitsuin put her finger to her lip in thought.

"Doggy?" Hitsuin suggested with a silly expression. Hinata smiled at her daughter's lovliness.

"Try again..." Kiba encouraged. Hitsuin looked to the lovely little puppy's eyes and thought of a fantastic name.

"I know! I know! Koinu!" Hitsuin announced happily. The little puppy barked in joy and licked Hitsuin without end.

"She likes it!" Hinata said happily. Once the names were decided, the Inuzuka twins and their puppies went to training with their father teaching them the basic Inuzuka clan Jutsu. After three solid days of training, they were tired and worn out.

"Come on, kids! You gotta keep trying or you'll never be as good as me!" Kiba encouraged as the two were crouching in their garden in exhaustion. The puppies were likewise.

"Can't we...just rest for five minutes, dad?" Asked Kitsuin. Hinata, who was watching from the canopy, had a brilliant idea and walked to her training children.

"Give it one more try, children, and I will make your favourite meal for dinner tonight." She said. This made the children, and even the dogs, react favouribly.

"You mean it?" They said together. Hinata nodded with a smile. They instantly jumped up, with their faithful canines jumping on top of them in a battle stance.

"Alright, let's go!" they said preparing their Jutsu one more time.

Back in the present day, Hitsuin grew a smile at her happy memories with her mom and dad and rose to the challenge of Uhen and Sahou.

"We can't back down now, brother!" Hitsuin said.

"Yeah! We won't be able to face Aunt Hanabi if we do." Kitsuin said. He pressed the speaker on his transmitter. "Kitsuin, here. We've gained the upper hand. No need to fret." This had a very good impact on Hanabi, as she heard it, she gave a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness..." She whispered, making absolute sure her transmitter wasn't on. When she was sure, she pressed the microphone. "Very well. Good luck. Over and out." She finally left the twins to their fight, but there was one person who was yet to report: Konohamaru. Often, he'd be the first to report, but the fact he didn't was strange. She looked to a nearby window to see that Konohamaru's tower was directly next to her's. She gave a loud sigh. "Sarutobi, your always a thorn at my side." She took a step back and ran full speed for the window. Using her Chakra, she burst through the window unharmed by the glass shards and used her Chakra further to propell herself to Konohamaru's tower. She made it by bursting through another window which led her to the stairs. Without worrying for herself, she ran up the stairs to see what, or who, was taking Konohamaru so long that he couldn't answer.

It wasn't a long trip up the stairs; her tower was relatively tall, but not compared to Konohamaru's tower, which did give her a good head start. Eventually though, she made it to the door Konohamaru once treaded. The doors were knocked down and led into an infernal abyss of darkness. She focussed slightly.

"This is Sarutobi's Chakra..." She muttered. "Wind-Style. Quite powerful. Used not more than fifteen minutes ago. Sarutobi's been here." With bravery in her heart, she edged forwards into the darkness. She took a few more steps forward and the place lit up in flames on candles, just like before. And on the very same position as last time, stood the same Uchiha woman, Nomi Uchiha.

"My, they just keep coming and coming." She said rather calmly. Hanabi tensioned.

"If what you say is true, then you must have encountered Sarutobi?" She asked.

"If Sarutobi, you mean the tall handsome fellow." She replied. Then she gave an evil giggle. "You could say we crossed paths." Hanabi was astounded. If they met, obviously Konohamaru would have to fight. And if this Uchiha girl was still standing, then Konohamaru was...

"What have you done with Konohamaru!" Hanabi screamed at Nomi. The Uchiha didn't flinch at Hanabi's rage. Hanabi's anger grew and grew with each stalled second. "I demand you to tell me what you've done with Konohamaru!"

"Are you sure you want to be blaming me for something I didn't do?" She asked. Just then, Hanabi felt a presence behind her. She wheeled around with a Kunai in her hand, in case it was another Uchiha. but as it turned out, Hanabi spun around to see Konohamaru, as the two were face-to-face...or face to chest, as Konohamaru was taller.

"Hey, put that somewhere else, before you poke someone's eye out." He said, just as cheery as ever.

"S-Sarutobi!" Hanabi yelled in surprise. But in the deepest recesses of her mind, she gave a mental sigh of relief, knowing Konohamaru was unharmed. "W-Why didn't you answer my report request?"

"I was trying to go for the stealthy kill. But when you showed up, I guess we can work two on one to take her down!" He got into a battle stance behind Hanabi as she done the same.

"See?" Nomi said. "He's fine."

"Wait...If Sarutobi was going for the stealthy kill, how did she know he was there?" Thought Hanabi strangely.

"Though. That would depend on your opinion of 'fine'." Nomi finished. Then, the unexpected happened, Hanabi felt a Kunai slash her back. It was painful, but she swiftly jumped away. Her eyes widened in shock to see the attacker to be none other than Konohamaru.

"S-Sarutobi! What is the meaning of this?" Hanabi screamed. Nomi gave a hearty laugh.

"I nearly gave myself away with that excuse." She said while approaching Konohamaru. "But, I'm glad my little servant was able to provide some use." Hanabi was shocked to see Nomi leaning herself very sexually on Konohamaru's shoulder, with the latter not making any attempt to be rid of her.

"K-Konohamaru..." Hanabi whispered in shock. Nomi laughed once more.

"Oh, don't take it to heart. Konohamaru-kun here isn't attacking personally. No, no. You could say I'm more controlling him. Like a puppet to my strings." She took from her cloak a small miniature figurine of Konohamaru. "With his own soul!"

It took her long enough, but Maruya finally managed to defeat her Uchiha opponent: a largely built Uchiha with the same clothing as all the others. He lay on the ground, having been delivered the final blow, with Maruya's Kensei Sentou attack.

"Damn it..." He muttered. "Yamishin-sama...forgive me..." And with those words, he died.

"Phew! That was quite a tough battle." Maruya said, wiping her pretty face of sweat. She looked to her palm. "Sensei, your Jutsu's proving more and more powerful each time I use it..." With the sentimentals done, she began doing some math on how many opponents are left. "Okay, as far as I can tell, there're three Uchiha left. One for Haruhi, one for those cute twins and one for Konohamaru-kun..." Then the same thing went through Maruya's head as it did with Hanabi's. Konohamaru didn't reply to the report request, so something must be wrong, a feeling she couldn't shake.. "Konohamaru..."

Haruhi, despite her exhaustion, kept climbing the endless flights of stairs. It became more and more fruitless with each stair travelled. But, then it came. A glimmering light at the end of the tunnel.

"Thank goodness!" She huffed. She made it to the top floor, to see that the door, which most of her allies been through was burst from it's hinges and lying in a destroyed state. "Could this be...Takai-kun's doing?" She approached forward with a little fear of what lay ahead. But she seen on the inside of the door's opening there was nothing to be afraid of. The room was the same as all the other rooms her allies been through: long, open spaced and was perfect for fighting in. Haruhi stepped forward to see that someone was indeed in the room with her. On the far side of the room stood a very familiar face. The more she stepped forward, the more it was revealed who it was; Takai's sister and companion: Mitsuko Uchiha...

"You..."