The Fights are Over, Or is it?

Even with her Byakugan active, and adopting the Gentle Fist style Taijutsu, Hitsuin Inuzuka was still no match for the combined forces of Uhen and Sahou's superior tag-team skills. Hitsuin composed herself to fight the duo, despite the numerous injuries she succumbed to.

"Don't you see, child?" Asked Uhen.

"You are completely out of your comfort zone in battle techniques." Said Sahou.

"You were trained to use your canines in battle." Uhen spoke.

"So why, all of a sudden, switch to the Hyuga's fighting style?" Continued Sahou.

"I am of Hyuga blood, as is my brother." Hitsuin replied with fatigue. "If I cannot fight with Koinu, I will use my Gentle Fist to carry on the fight." The Uchiha twins spat a laugh.

"Speaking of your sibling." Sahou said.

"Why isn't he helping you fight?" Uhen asked.

"The same goes for your puppy." Sahou said.

"Are they too afraid to fight?" Uhen mocked. Hitsuin growled at the Uchiha twins mockery. Kitsuin, who was standing back from the fight, silently gathering Chakra, also growled at this.

"Don't disrespect my brother!" Hitsuin screamed. Then, with all her strength, she charged for the two. They gracefully dodged a fatal Gentle Fist by side-stepping in opposite directions. This left Hitsuin wide open and they took this chance and painfully elbowed Hitsuin on both sides of her rib cage. She gave a painfully scream as she fell to the floor in defeat.

"Wildly attacking isn't going to win fights, girl." Uhen mocked with an evil smile.

"Symmetry and precision is what can!" Sahou said in victory.

"So, brother. How shall we kill this girl?" Asked Uhen.

"Any way shall satisfy Yamishin-sama." Sahou said. Uhen grinned to this and the two twins pulled Hitsuin up by her hair and readied a Kunai each.

"It's been a blast, girl." Sahou said.

"But we were the better duo." Uhen said. But before the attack could be made...

"Get your filthy hands off my sister..." Spoke Kitsuin in dark malice. The two looked over to Kitsuin to see him and the two puppies no longer quietly gathering Chakra, but gathering it at an alarming rate.

"That Chakra!" Uhen whispered in shock.

"He must be stopped!" Sahou said. But, before this statement could be put into action, Hitsuin regained herself, and tripped Uhen by the feet, and deliberately missing Sahou. When the male Uchiha looked to her sibling lying on the ground from the trip, a vein popped in his head. "You fool!" He made a punch for her, which made contact.

"Why are you attacking me for, idiot?" Uhen yelled.

"You dare lose symmetry in the middle of a fight?" Yelled Sahou. "Such foolishness is not forgivable!"

"I didn't lose it on purpose! That Leaf girl made me lose it!" Uhen bickered. "Besides, you should have been paying attention to her!"

"No! You should have!" Sahou bickered back. But, the bickering was stopped, when Kitsuin's Chakra reached it's peak. They both looked around to see him and the dogs immersed in Chakra.

"Three-Man-Beast Transformation Combo!" Kitsuin called. "Three-Headed Cerberus!" What emerged from the giant wave of Chakra made the Uchiha twins' jaws drop to the floor in utter dumbfoundment: A giant black canine emerged, with three heads, matted fur, red eyes and three devil-designed tails.

"Wh-What the hell is that?" Uhen whispered in shock. Hitsuin quickly sped to the other side of the hall and collapsed on the floor.

"Now, brother!" She called. The giant three-headed dog jumped back, and sprayed a large amount of saliva on the two Uchiha.

"Ughhh! Disgusting!" Sahou barked. But, when he tried to step forward, he noticed his foot was stuck to the floor.

"I can't move my feet!" Cried Uhen.

"It's the Inuzuka's special dog mixture." Hitsuin explained. "A thick cement made from the saliva of our canine. They can't produce enough when in puppy form, but when older or in this state, they can paralyze an army's worth of ninja in it's power." The giant canine now prepared a large amount of Chakra, and with an almighty charge, began spinning as fast as it could.

"Fang Over Fang - Diablos Strike!" Called the voice of Kitsuin as the spinning of blue Chakra turned black and finally attacked the twins with it. The attack was so powerful, the entire top tower caved in and covered the entire room with rubble. Hitsuin emerged through willpower alone.

"Kitsuin!" She called. "Koinu! Okami!" She ran over to a less destroyed section of the room to find her three companions lying on the ground weakened.

"Hitsuin...Did I do good?" Kitsuin asked. Hitsuin smiled happily and hugged him.

"You were brilliant." She praised.

"That's good..." Kitsuin sighed. The Uchiha twins weren't so fortunate; they were alive, but only just, having had their arms crushed and middle torso obliterated with the attack - ironically, the injuries they sustained were on perfect symmetry. Uhen gave a blooded cough.

"Brother..." She weakly uttered.

"D-Don't talk, sister..." Sahou replied. "You need to save your strength..." He painfully gasped at the pain he was subjected too.

"Do you...remember when we first received the Sharingan?" Asked Uhen.

"Yes...Yamishin-sama...he promised us a better life, right?"

"Do you think...we succeeded in making him proud?" Uhen asked.

"More than anything, sister..." Sahou said. Uhen gave a weak smile.

"Thank goodness..." And with one last breathe, both siblings had finally died; knowing they had fulfilled what they can in making their enigmatic master proud.

"May you rest in peace, Uchiha..." Kitsuin said, looking at the dead bodies of the Uchiha. And for the four Inuzuka twins, they decided to rest up, and await further instructions, but not before getting some well deserved sleep.

Seven out of eight towers were successfully liberated; Shikari, Ayane, Konohamaru, Hanabi, Maruya, Tatsuno and now the Inuzuka twins have defeated their respective opponents, with or without aid from the others. The eighth and most tallest tower, was in progress of being liberated, however, by the one who made the mission possible...

Haruhi looked all around her; her opponent, Takai's sister, Mitsuko, had seemingly vanished into thin air and her whereabouts was unknown.

"It's not easy, is it?" Called the voice of Mitsuko. "Following the Uchiha's Genjutsu?" Haruhi continued to look wildly around the battlefield for her. "You're powerless..." Haruhi gasped and jumped back to see Mitsuko was directly behind her, and if she remained in that spot for a second more, she would have been stabbed by a Kunai.

"Why don't you quit your tricks and fight me for real?" Haruhi snapped as she landed from the jump. Mitsuko grinned.

"Genjutsu is one of the Uchiha's most strongest attributes." Mitsuko lectured. Suddenly, she felt a hand touch her shoulder. She darted her eyes towards the person to see it was Mitsuko. Haruhi jumped back to avoid what attack Mitsuko might do, and seen that the Mitsuko she was staring at vanished. "I can control anything the human eye sees. So long as you don't possess the Sharingan, you can never see past my illusions." Haruhi grimaced at Mitsuko's overconfidence.

"You've got a lot in common with Takai-kun than I thought." Haruhi said. Mitsuko raised an eyebrow. "You're both very big-headed in battle." Mitsuko, enraged by the statement rushed to Haruhi and attempted to punch her, but a block ended such an attack.

"How dare you speak of my brother like that!" Mitsuko screamed. But before Haruhi could counter-attack, Mitsuko quickly kicked Haruhi, which made her painfully crash into the wall. Mitsuko quickly regained herself. "Why are you fighting me for anyway? We both share a common enemy, so you should really be treating me as the enemy of the enemy; which is your friend." Haruhi quickly got up, to disguise any signs of weakness.

"I'm fighting you, Mitsuko, because I'm going to prove to you and Takai-kun that my strength is nothing to laugh over!" Haruhi replied.

"Oh, don't get me wrong, girl." Mitsuko said. "You're definitely strong." While saying this, she tore the left sleeve of her blouse that revealed a heavily banadaged arm, that had blood seeping through it. "You did that on our last encounter." Haruhi's eyes widened at such a fact. "You don't remember? Then that means that wild power you had was only conjured by a fluke." Then, finally ran to Haruhi's location with a victorious smile. "Aren't I lucky?" Haruhi quickly dodged a punch made by Mitsuko which made the wall she punched instead crack without end.

"She's strong!" Thought Haruhi. And, once again, Haruhi had fallen into Mitsuko's Genjutsu, as the real Mitsuko was behind her during the dodge. As Haruhi couldn't dodge, Mitsuko punched Haruhi away. This time, the punch was so strong, that instead of colliding with the wall painfully, she collided while destroying half of it. Haruhi landed on the ground with a good chunk of destroyed brick littering itself on her.

"Come on, girl! Don't tell me that's all you have!" Mitsuko taunted. Haruhi got up, not wanting to show her weakness.

"Don't think you have this fight won yet." Haruhi spoke, wiping a blood stain from her head, which came from the collision on the wall. "I've barely only begun!" Haruhi readied herself. Mitsuko gave a laugh.

"Looks like I'll have to up my game too." Mitsuko said. Instantly, she charged with lightning swift speed and kicked Haruhi once more. But she actually struck a Shadow Clone, which vanished on impact. Then, from behind the smoke, came Haruhi with a Rasengan. "What?"

"Rasengan!" Haruhi yelled, plunging the Chakra ball into Mitsuko, blasting her back onto one of the pillars. Haruhi approached and stood over the weakened Mitsuko. "Am I strong enough for you now?" Mitsuko however gave a grin.

"Nowhere near it." Mitsuko weakly coughed. She then pointed to the middle of the battlefield. Haruhi was shocked to find that she was yet again caught in Mitsuko's Genjutsu, and the real was standing where she was before she made her move.

"How...?" Haruhi said, with stunned eyes.

"You can't beat me." Mitsuko said in high arrogance. "You can attack me from now until the end of the world, and you still wouldn't hit me!"

"And you expect to beat me with just doing fancy Genjutsu tricks?" Haruhi spat.

"Actually, I do." Mitsuko said. "You must know of the Mangekyou Sharingan, do you not?" Mitsuko closed her eyes, Haruhi gasped and readied herself.

"Whatever you have planned, I won't let you do it!" Haruhi yelled, and charged for Mitsuko.

"I find that hard to believe, since..." Mitsuko opened her eyes once more to reveal a blood red version of her Sharingan, with the black commas morphing into a three-pointed star that pointed outwards. "I already have." Haruhi's sight began to go fuzzy. She tried to shake the phenomona away, but she was eventually enveloped in a dark grey fog.

"What is this?" Asked Haruhi. She began walking to see if she can get anywhere where the fog was less dense; but no matter where she went, the fog was all the same. "Hello? Mitsuko!" The girl that had the Mangekyo Sharingan on before was completely nowhere in sight. Haruhi looked all around her on the spot to see any sign of anything, it was all hopeless until she seen a shadow amongst the fog. "There!" Quickly, she dashed to the shadow, hoping it would be a clue to her whereabouts. She came closer and closer to the shadow, until, the figure can be made out. Haruhi gasped as she stopped in front of her runaway companion. "T-Takai-kun!" Haruhi was shocked to see her companion, who had turned to her with his eyes closed. "Takai-kun! Am I glad to see you! Where've you been? How long were you here, I..." But Takai was not responding to any of her movements or words. "Takai-kun?" She tried shaking him, but he wasn't even fazed by her actions. "Takai-kun, come on, it's me, Haruhi!" And then, Takai opened his eyes immediately and his eyes were blood red with his own Sharingan. And on doing this, he grabbed Haruhi by the neck.

"I know who you are..." Takai growled maliciously. Haruhi gasped and coughed as Takai lifted her up in the air, as she was being choked to death by her comrade.

"T-Takai-kun...what...what are you doing?" Haruhi coughed, as Takai increased his grip on her.

"Killing you, like I should have that day!" Takai said with deep malice. Haruhi coughed, trying to wrench Takai's grip from her neck.

"T-Takai...-kun..." All went black for the young Uzumaki. Whether it be from the strain of Takai's grip knocking her unconscious or her own works, she didn't know. All she knew after that, that she was now in a long winding tunnel, with darkness surrounding her. "Wh-Where am I?" The floor of the was ankle-high in water. Her feet were stripped of her blue shoes, so she walked to where she could familiarize herself with her surroundings. She felt the sides of the walls; damp, metal and the touch of moss made her retract her hand; it was all real. After the eventual splish-splash of her feet became familiar with herself, she came across a metal door. Carefully, she opened and peered through. What was behind the door stunned her. A blood red flame was burning away in a pedestal, with chains wrapping itself around the flame. "What is that?" She trodded to the flame, with the water on the ground becoming less, and suddenly, the flame formed two burning yellow eyes.

"Who dares disturb my sleep?" Haruhi heard a voice call.

"M-Me...Haruhi...Haruhi Uzumaki..." Haruhi croaked in fear of the flame's dark voice. The flame laughed to itself briefly.

"Ahhh...this must be the girl I've been hearing so much about..." It spoke once more.

"Who...or, what are you?" Asked Haruhi.

"I am just the Chakra of an entity beyond your comprehension..." It said. Haruhi's eyes widened.

"Your the Chakra of the Nine-Tailed Fox dad spoke of?" Haruhi exclaimed.

"Very good, you're brighter than you look." The flame said. "I was the one who gave you power when you needed it most."

"You didn't give me power!" Haruhi screamed. "You used my body to hurt my friend!"

"Ahh, yes. But if I recall correctly, he hurt you first?" The Chakra spoke.

"I..." Haruhi croaked in sadness at this fact.

"No matter. For now, you face a difficult situation." Immediately, the images of Takai choking her filled her head. Haruhi screamed as she fell to her knees in agony. "You can either let the girl's illusion destroy you..."

"Illusion?" Gasped Haruhi.

"Or use my power, and defeat her!" The Chakra continued. Haruhi stood up.

"Dad said never to rely on your powers." She said.

"Oh, this isn't relying. Call it a lifeline." Haruhi thought for a moment and sighed.

"I have one condition." Haruhi said. "I stay in control."

"Very well." It spoke, and then the chains shattered itself and the Chakra immersed itself in Haruhi. "It would be troublesome if you die, and me along with you..." Haruhi gasped with the power being flown into her, and when all went dark once more, she awoke to see her in the grip of Takai once more. She seen that the red Chakra began to form around her.

"Takai...I know that isn't you...so I won't hold back!" The Chakra coming from Haruhi sky-rocketed, so much that Takai was blown back and the fog that was surrounding her was blown away. She was back in the tower she was fighting Mitsuko in and the spot Takai was, became Mitsuko.

"Impossible!" Mitsuko whispered, staring at the in-control Haruhi. Haruhi looked to her hand, which had the red Chakra surrounding it, and clenched it into a fist, ready to prove to Mitsuko how powerful she really is.