Time skip~

Third POV

Momiji flashed in front of Taka and raised an eyebrow.

"You guys really got beaten up..." She commented. Sasuke glared at her. "How are the new eyes?"

"Good." He said, activating his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Momiji smiled. Her surgery/implant had worked.

Sasuke had activated his Mangekyo. Then, after a complicated medical process, she transplanted Itachi's eyes into Sasuke and vise versa. Unknown to Tobi, Sasuke's eyes had not be disposed of. Rather, they were now in Itachi's eye sockets.

Momiji looked at the limp figure of Killer Bee.

"Somethings weird about this one...I can't sense Gyūki's presense." Her wolf, Mostleaf told Momiji. She relied this to the time.

"Well, we did beat him up."

"That would be chakra loss, which isn't the case. His presense, his thoughts, that kind of stuff. This right here just feels like chakra." Mistleaf said. Momiji frowned.

"This is a fake." She finally said. "A clone...though definately a useful one."

She formed a string of hand signs and then placed both hands on the body.

"Ancient Art: Beast Tamer." Slowly, a stream of chakra poured out. It grew larger and faster over time.

Taka watched in awe as they felt her chakra levels rise. Momiji closed her eyes to concentrate.

Some time later, the body turned into an octopus leg. Taka stared at it flop around.

Momiji exaled and sat down.

"What did you just do?"

"Absorbed the chakra. Beast Tamer. To calm down a ferocious beast you take away its energy: chakra." Momiji explained to the inquiring Juugo. Karin looked at Momiji.

"What happened to all the chakra you absorbed? I can't feel it."

"Seals. Amazing things. Shouldn't you be able to use them? You are an Uzumaki after all."

"Uzumaki? Like...Naruto?" Sasuke questioned. Momiji nodded.

"Can't you tell the resemblance? Loud, stubborn, short tempered..."

"SHUT UP!" Karin shouted. Suigetsu laughed.

"Seems like you guys need to go back. Though I think some healing might be good." She said, looking over their wounds, tattered outfits, and the amount of blood.

She started to heal them, the larger, greater ones first. Right as she was about to move onto another one, she froze. Her face paled and she balled her fists.

"What's wrong?" Suigetsu asked. Momiji closed her eyes for a bit.

"Pein, our leader...died." There was a silence as the group watched Momiji. Color returned to her face, and her eyes hardened.

"We're leaving." There was a burst of smoke and a wolf appeared. Momiji touched her fur, and indicated that the rest should as well. They disappeared just as a group of kumo shinobi arrived...

The five reappeared in a dark cave. Momiji continued to heal them until all they were left with were small wounds that would heal quickly by themselves.

Finished, she walked away, entering another cave. There, she waited. Moments later, Tobi arrived.

"Where is the Hachibi?"

"What do you think? You see any man with rapping issues? Overflowing chakra? Sunglasses? Bunch of swords?" Momiji replied. She couldn't tell his reaction due to the mask. "They failed. Too seriously injured. It's a good thing you told me to meet up with them; they would have been dead otherwise."

Tobi remained silent. Then, "Our leader is dead."

Momiji scoffed. "He wasn't the true leader. You were the one pulling the strings."

"You know a lot. More than you should." He said, in a mild tone. Momiji though, was not fooled.

"I'm not going to interfer with anything. Don't worry, my lips are shut." She replied, lying with ease.

Tobi nodded, then left. Momiji sighed, and then waited. Soon, Kaname appeared.

"What happened?" She asked. Kaname told her about Pein's invasion. Momiji listened.

"Uzumaki Naruto...his light is strong. He is a model of what we want."

"Yes. He has potential. If shinobi were like him..."

"Yet even he has darkness. A dark side to him. Should he visit the Waterfall of Truth..."

"Then, he would be strong. A steady beam of light that would clear the dark. But he is not enough."

"Naruto might die. Bijuu extraction has an extremely low survival rate. Kurama is necessary, Naruto isn't as much. He could die."

"No, there is a problem. The people around him are attached to his light. Should we kill it, the results..." Momiji and Kaname though for a while in the silence.

"Oh, I forgot. The Rinnegan eyes." Kaname pulled the container out. Momiji looked at it.

"Good. Now then, I will go meet with Itachi. We must discover who the masked man is."

She left, leaving Kaname. He teleported to the island and hid the eyes.

Looking up into the sky, he sighed.

The forces were moving. War was coming.

After living for so long...this life...it might end soon.


So...where have I been...

Held by the evil writers block. Reviews are loved.