Gaara didn't move, just glared at Sasuke with out moving a muscle.

"If you're not going to come to me, then I'll go to you!"

Sand rises up to block Sasuke but with blinding speed he runs behind Gaara and heads towards him. Sand quickly shifts to cover Gaara's back and Sasuke dodges the sand and kicks Gaara in the chest and sends him to the ground where his sand breaks the fall and more cracks appear on his sand armor. That armor of yours, I'll rip it off you. thought Sasuke as he raised a wall of dust around Gaara as he ran around him. The sand was no match for Sasuke's speed, just like when it had tries to keep Gaara away it wasn't fast enough to protect Gaara. Sasuke kicks Gaara hard under the chin, grabs his shirt and kicks him in the gut, followed by another kick in the chest. Both of them are panting and damp with sweat, but Sasuke is panting slightly harder. Up in the stands Lee is looking down at Sasuke with a surprised look. Sasuke...you really are a genius. It took me years to achieve that level of speed and you attained it in only one month. However, maintaining that level of speed sure waists alot of energy...doesn't it? On the balcony Kankuro was looking a bit worried. What are you goin to do now Gaara? The sand armor uses too much chakra, you can't keep using it for that long.

"What kind of training did you put him through Kakashi? To make him that fast in one month?"

"Because Sasuke had already seen Lee's movements with his sharingan, I just told him to visualize Lee's movements during his taijutsu training."

But that doesn't make any sense...thought Hade Kakashi saw the fight between Gaara and Lee and he knows that taijutsu wasn't enough to defeat him...so what did he do besides teach Sasuke taijutsu? Their attention was suddenly snapped back to the arena when the sand around Gaara began to surround him. Sasuke ran toward Gaara, the hole that was left before the dome was completed got smaller and smaller as Sasuke's fist got closer to the hole. There was a big fwunk sound as Sasuke's fist connected with the dome which had been completed and sand spikes shot out, cutting Sasuke on the arm and right cheek. He jumped away and the sand receded back into the dome. He has put his sand into defense mode..because of the sands density, I didn't think he could create something so solid. His right hand was twitching as he had cut open his knuckles when he had punched the sand and blood trickled into onto the ground. So this is the meaning of and absolute defense huh?

"Kakashi-sensei!"

The jonin turned around and saw Naruto and Shikamaru panting as if they'd run the whole way up the stairs.

"Yo! What's up?"

"Sensei...you have to stop this match right away!" His sensei and Sakura looked at him incredulously. "He's completely diferent from us he's not normal!

"Naruto calm down I'm sure Sasuke can handle it."

"No Hade-sensei you don't get it-"

"Don't worry about it" Kakashi said calmly as Sasuke wiped away the blood from his cheeck with a smirk. "There's a reason...why were so late getting here."

Sasuke sped forward and attacked the dome, kicking and punching, but the dome wouldn't even budge. Just as I figured, no good...I don't know what he's up to but it's fine by me. This thing of mine...he crosses his arms. Is going to take time too...

"Sensei what do you mean by 'there was a reason why we were so late getting here' ?"

"Hmm? So you really want to know?"

"I'm telling you this is no time to be chatting!"

"Just shut up and watch him." they look at him in question as his eyes are focused on the arena. "You'll be surprised."

Sasuke backfliped to the wall and used his chakra to stay on the wall. His hand began to crackle as chakra erupted from his hands like electricity crackling out of a broken power line. Gai turns to Kakashi with a shocked expresion.

"Don't tell me-" Kakashi closes his eye in a satisfied smile.

"The reason I took Sasuke under my wing...is because he's alot like me."

They watch as Sasuke runs down the wall and his left hand that activates the jutsu grazing the wall and makes it crumble.

"Flesh activation? I see," says Gai amusedly "So that's why you had him focus on Taijutsu...and increase his speed so much."

"Yup!"

"You sly old dog." Smirks Hade.

"Please Hade why must you always tease me?"

"Because it's soo fun!"

"Wow...I can totaly see his chakra...what in the world is that about?" Sakura says in amazement.

As Sasuke gets closer to the ground he jumps from the wall and and to the ground while still running toward the sand dome.

"What the...what is that?"

Sasuke got closer and closer, up in the stands a spectator is sitting at the edge of his seat looking intently at the match. But his vision begins to fade and he slumps forward and passes out, behind him an anbu retracts his hand that had been on the spectators back before he passed out. Sasuke's jutsu begins to emit a loud chirping noise, like a swarm of birds.

"What move is that...? And that incredible noise-"

"It's just a hand chop..." interrupted Gai.

"Huh?"

"However, it's unique original move created by Kakashi."

"It's a move resserved for assassination...the secret is in the speed of the thrust and the immense chakra produced by superactivating one's flesh." Hade continued for him and after she finished Gai continued.

"By narrowly focusing massive amounts of chakra from the dominant hand, a pulsing fluctuation forms in the thrust which results in that unique attack sound that resembles the crying of a thousand birds. Accordingly that move is called...Chidori: one thousand birds."

Sasuke's arm makes contact with the sand dome and his hand penetrates the sand up to his elbow. Everyone stares in shock and Gaara's teammates are in complete surprised.

"You must be joking! He can't have penetrated Gaara's absolute defense!"

"It can't be..."

"Not possible."

"The move is also called Raikiri or Lightning Blade."

"Lightning Blade?"

"It's said that Kakashi once sliced lightning using that jutsu, henced forth giving it it's nickname." They looked at Kakashi with a rather amused gaze but seriously doubted that any of what the adults had said was true. "But how could you have taught him such a reckles move?"

"Like you have the right to criticize me..." he chuckled. "Right Lee?"

Down at the arena Sasuke was smirking, his sharingan activated.

"Gotcha!"

Inside the dome Gaara felt a great pain on his shoulder and something warm...and wet.

"What...is this warm moistness...mother...what happened!" He feels something splash on his hand and he lets out a blood curling scream. "Waaaaah! BLOOOD...I'M BLEEEDIING!"

Sasuke yelps in pain as he feels something clasp on his arm, he gathers his chakra and activates the chidori again and Gaara shouts in pain. He struggles and jerks until his hand finaly starts to slip out. But his hand wasn't the only thing that slid out, clutching Sasuke's arm was something like a large arm with claws, and on the arm were visible blue veins. Sasuke slapped his arm away from the thing and held his bleeding arm as the monstrous arm slipped back inside the dome. Kakashi, Hade and Gai stared in horror.

"What the hell is that?" Hade looked at Sasuke and gasped, his expression was an expression she had never seen before...it was an expression of fear. Something's not right about that Gaara kid...that chakra I just sensed.... The dome suddenly began to crack and fall away, revealing Gaara gasping in pain and holding his left arm were blood ran down his arm.

"Huh? Why do I see feathers?" Naruto's eyes began to get heavy as feathers hovered all around. All the shinobi that were chunnin and above were the only ones who noticed that this was a genjutsu and reversed it. In the balcony Enama, Kano, and Kenta also reversed it. Up in the main viewing tower the Kazekage looked at the Hokage and the Hokage looked at him.

"Well..." said the Kazekage. "Shall we get going?" The Kazekage's guards moved at blinding speed and threw a smoke bomg on the floor. The Konoha shinobi snapped their heads in terror at the viewing tower. But that was only the begining. There was an explosion in the east gate of the village and three giant snakes slithered into the village, destroying everything in sight. Back at the arena the anbu black ops separated into two groups. One went to protect the lords and nobles while the other went to aid the Hokage. There was a cry of pain in the smoke and the Kazekage's guards attacked only to be swiftly desposed of. Not a second later the Kazekage jumped from the balcony to the roof of the tower with the Hokage infront of him as a shield and holding a kunai to his neck. Immediately the bodies of the dead guards moved and jumped to the roof, the anbu moved after them but they were too one move to slow. The two dead guards turned out to be four sound nin who jumped on the foor corners of the roof and made handsigns. A tall purple transparent wall rose up couple hundred feet all around the corners were the sound nins were standing. Unfortunately one of the anbu black ops wasn't able to stop in time like the others and slamed straight into the wall and burst into flames. Down on the audience the leaf ninja was fighting some of the sand and sound. Hade fought and easily dispatched one of the sound nin as she slashed across his chest with her katana.

"Sensei look out!" Hade quickly ducked as something speed past her, she sees a sound nin had sneaked up on her and had been ready to stab her. The nin's head snaps back and he falls to the ground with a large kunai embeded deep into his head.

"Good aim Kano." Hade said as her students appear next to her.

"Sensei what's going on?" asked Enama as she saw the battle raging around them.

"It's called a small scale invasion." Hade answered as she threw a kunai across the arena and hit a sand nin in the back of the head as he was going to stab a konoha nin. Her commarade nodded a thanks before heading to another opponent. That's when she sees Sasuke jump over the arena wall as well as noticing that Gaara and his teammates are gone.

She curses under her breath. "This is bad."

"What is it sensei?"

"That arm that came out of the sand dome Gaara was using...it bugs me."

"Sensei!"

She turns around and blocks an attack to her head by a sand nin and kills him by cutting his throat. Bloods sprays on her chest and her cheeck. Her students look at her with wide eyes and she smirks.

"How about we work on helping our commarades with these invadors and then talk?" They nod quickly before doing their attack formation and attack the enemy.

The battle was quick, but it had felt like and endless battle. The Hokage had fought Orochimaru -who had disguised himself as Kazekage-despite the fact that his chakra had declined due to his age. He had used everything in his power to fight Orochimaru and fix past errors when he had failed to kill him 10 yrs ago. He had even used the jutsu that the fourth Hokage had used to defeat the Nine-Tailed fox. But with his old and aged body and his declined chakra he had been unable to take out Orochimaru's soul with the Reaper Death Seal -fourth hokage's jutsu-. If he couldn't kill him then he would take away his jutsu away. But Orochimaru fought till the end, he used his jutsu to control a sword and stab the Hokage...but he didn't evade it. The Reaper Death Seal was a jutsu that required the full body sacrifice of the user in order to take a life so even if he didn't die due to the sword he would die after the jutsu was done. Once Orochimaru's arms had been sealed the sound nin broke the jutsu and took Orochimaru out of there. The anbu tried to go after him but one of the nin trapped them in a form of sticky web infused with chakra. Once Orochimaru had been defeat the sand and sound nin had either surrendered or retreated. The shinobi in the arena had defeated all of the nin and once they had finished they headed to the main viewing tower. There they found their beloved leader and friend on his back with a smile on his lips. Hade knelt down and placed two fingers on his neck, fighting back the tears in her eyes she shook her head. The others around her closed their eyes or looked away, Kano and Kenta had their fists clenched and eyes gleaming with unshed tears while Enama didn't bother to hide the tears and led them flow.

They took the whole day to gather all their dead and wounded while at the Hokage's tower a meeting was taking place.

"We have to hunt down Orochimaru and finish what the Hokage didn't finish!" Hade said as she took a step forward and Kakashi placed a hand on her shoulder and squeezed it. The elders were sitting on either side of the feudal lord as well as the other rulers.

"Everyone knows how you feel Kihari but the most important thing right now is to restore the village and try not to have a war with Suna." the lord said.

"You shouldn't let emotions cloud your judgement Kihari, it'll only bring you trouble." said the male advisor.

"And we all know how much trouble you can cause when you act on emotions." said the female advisor referring to the time Itachi had killed his family and she had called for a squad to hunt him down two days after Sasuke had moved back into the compound. Color flushed to Hade's cheeks in anger and Kakashi had to squeeze her arm to almost bruising force to keep her from stepping forward and attacking the elder woman.

"That's enough," said the lord as he noticed Hade's murderous eyes. "Even if we did go after Orochimaru it will be futile. The Hokage had been searching for Orochimaru for almost ten years without ever finding him. We will focus on the damage the village had taken and I will have a meeting with the feudal lord of Suna as well as their council."

"What about the Hokage's funeral?" she asked

"All our shinobi will be buried and the Hokage's will b the last one...for everyone will need to attend it." he gets up and all the shinobi bow. Once he's gone all the shinobi leave. The only one's left are Kakashi and Hade, his arm still griping hard on her shoulder.

Feeling her arm going numb she says with out looking at Kakashi. "You can let go now Kakashi."

Even though she can't see him Kakashi gives her a doubtful look before letting go. But Hade moves so fast he wasn't able to stop her, she swung her fist back and punched one of the pillers in the room closest to her. When her arm goes back to her side he sees some blood trickling down and a big crack on the pillar.

"Those pillars are tougher than they look." he says as he walks over to her and turns her around. Unshed tears rim her eyes as she tries to not meet his eyes as sadness and rage threatening to overwhelm her. He places his hand on her shoulder again but he gives it a reasuring squeeze.

"How about we walk you home?" She nods silently before being led out of the building. They get there in only a few minutes and Manna greeted them at the door. Manna hadn't been able to fight much in the battle, she had to protect her son by taking him away from the arena. She took one look at Hade's bleeding hand and sighed with mild irritation.

"I take it the meeting didn't go well?"

"It went well actually, just that-"

"That elder woman really needs to keep her mouth shut when it comes to personal information." hissed Hade and Manna understood. Then Hade's murderous look changes to a softer and worried look.

"How's Souma."

"The poor boy is scared to go to sleep, he says there's still snakes under his bed."

"I wouldn't go to sleep either after seeing a snake taller than a mountain." she said when Souma had told her with a scared look that he had seen giant snakes destroying bluildings. "How's Sasuke?"

"He's still in his room."

"But first," Kakashi says as he takes Hade's wrist and shows Manna the bleeding hand. "we need to take care of this."

"I have some bandages." She lets them in and closes the door. They sit on the couch as Manna returns with the bandages. "I'll be with Souma in case you need me."

"Thanks sensei."

She smiles and leaves them alone. Kakashi bandaged her hand with such gentle care that it fazed Hade, he might be brutal and swift with his attacks-not to mention deadly- but with her he was always gentle and careful. When he finished bandaging her hand he kept her hand in his and didn't let go for a while until she sighed.

"Kakashi..."

"I know you're upset about the Hokage but you have to calm down."

"Orochimaru almost destroyed the village and killed Sarutobi...and he walked away like a freeman." she mumbled.

"But he paid for it, the Hokage took all his jutsu away and left his arms useless."

She slowly takes her hand back and places it on her lap.

"But for how long do you think that'll last? If Orochimaru finds a new body and transfers into it he will have the use of his arms back in no time."

"If we can keep Sasuke safe there's no way Orochimaru can transfer, remember that he's very interested on him...now lets check on him."

They get up and head to Sasuke's room, he's sitting on his bed with his back resting on the headboard reading a book. He looks up just as they open the door.

"You forgot to knock." he says in a monotone voice though his eyes shoud clear annoyment.

Hade smirks. "Privacy is a previlige Uchiha, and when you disobey that previlige is taken away."

"I'm not eight anymore you know."

"No...but when you almost get yourself killed by disobeying your sense's advice I think you deserve it."

"Hn."

Anbu had found Sasuke and his teammates and taken them to the hospital. Sakura had only gotten a slight concussion. Naruto on the other hand had chakra exhaustion and quite a few broken bones.

"How's your arm and other wounds?"

"It's fine, now can I finish reading?"

"Fine...but you are still grounded."

"Fine, sister." For a moment she could see that joking tone that he had when he was smaller and he would joke everytime she scolded him for something. She gave him a tender smile and turned to leave. Kakashi turned to Sasuke and ruffled his hair to which he glared at. He followed Hade to her room were he closed the door once they were inside.

She sighs as she sits on the bed. "I miss the Sasuke that would pout everytime I scolded him and call me big sister...because of Itachi that is starting to wear off."

"Hade, there's nothing you can do now...just be there for him the whole way."

"You know...you're not as cold harted as people thought you were."

"Is that what they think of me?" he says in mock surprise as he sits down and gets closer to her until they were a few inches away. Her hands slowly go up until they rest on the edge of his mask and brings it down slowly. When it's completely down she takes one look at him and blood rushes to her cheecks. He smirks and her cheecks get even redder.

"You never seem to get used to it do you."

He wraps one hand around her waist and the other on her neck. Before she knows it he closes the space between them and kisses her.