My end, Your beginning

The pain was horrible but it wasn't something he wasn't use to. It must be the fact that he never expected the blade to be plunged in by his mother of all people. He knew that he could call out to his mother but she wouldn't listen to him. The mother he remembered was not the mother that was trying to kill him. Even when he slammed into the ground he couldn't believe how things had progressed to this point.

"I'm sorry..." he whispered when he fell but she wouldn't listen even if she could see him as her son. The look in her eye was so fierce that it made his stomach turn. He felt cold inside, like someone had put their hand inside his chest and pulled out everything inside.

"SASKUE!" he could hear her yelling for him. It was like chain yanking him awake again. He couldn't let guilt consume him he had to protect her. He had to save his mother from herself. He couldn't let things end this way. With a new grasp on his thoughts he sent his power to the ground as tree roots shot out of the ground and grabbed on to his mother. He would have to trust his own judgment on time as he was he pulled his hand down as the roots shot her down.

She came down to the earth alarmingly fast as he tried to slower her drop but she still hit the ground hard enough to crack it beneath her. He had got up to look at were she had landed only to be blocked by a cloud of dust. He didn't even have time to catch his breath when something slammed into his chest knocking him off his feet again. His head felt like a split melon as he tried to focus his vision.

"I know your still alive demon I can hear your breath." hissed his mother like a angry snake as Sasuke tried to stay as silent as he could. His whole left side of his torso was damaged heavily. Whatever his mother had thrown his way it was powerful enough to kill a lesser demon. Sasuke brought himself up as he looked around to find his mother standing in the same place she had landed. She looked like a psychopath waiting for her next kill and if Sasuke didn't act fast enough that would be him.

" I didn't kill your family." He tried

"Spar me your excuses." she hissed as she went at him. Stretching her left arm out she made a long diamond sword appear. The handle was pure white which made the blade look like it was glowing. Two long ribbons hung from the handle as a bell hung from each one. He had seen this sword only once before and he never thought he would see it again but here it was.

"Be honored Demon, you'll be the second person to get killed by Byakuren." she sneered (Translation: White Lotus) Sasuke watched as she came at him as he pulled out the ebony. The two swords clashed with each other with such force that it pushed them both back. The bells at the bottom of the sword rang loudly in his head as he looked at her. Her image seem to blur then fixes it's self. His ears were still ringing when she came at him. He moved out of the way but it still felt like he had weights on his feet as his movements seem sluggish.

The bells rang again and his vision blurred once again. He moved again as she came at him but this time she nicked his shoulder. He looked at the bottom of the sword to see the bells. Each time they rung his brain would disconnect with his body. The bells had to have some sort of charm on them.

Cling! Cling!

They rang together as Sasuke's thoughts seem to scatter. She went at him again this time cutting him a bit deeper on the shoulder. He growled loudly as he brought his hand over the wound. He was starting to lose his temper but he had to remember that he couldn't hurt his own mother. Her sword on the other hand was a whole different matter. The bells would ring again but this time he knew what to do.

Cling!

He brought up the ebony quickly as the sword hit each other. He took that chance and flicked his sword slightly as his mother pulled back expecting a counter attack but Sasuke didn't move. She looked at him for minute before he brought up his hand to show her the severed bells. She looked out raged for a moment as she looked down at her sword to find that he had indeed cut the bells off.

"I never liked bells." He told her as he throw them aside. " If it's a fight you want I'll give you one." he told her but he knew that he couldn't fight her with everything that he had. He put the ebony to his side and got into a stance. His mother looked at him as if measuring how it was that she was going to kill him. He didn't have time to think when she came at him full speed. He moved out of the way just in time as she cut the tree that was behind him in two. The tree was about a hundred years old and with one of the thickest trunks Sasuke had seen and his mother just sliced it in two like it was a tissue.

For the first time in this fight he had a feeling that he might not be as strong as he thought he was. She swung at his head as he blocked it with the ebony and felt the vibration of the sword as they slammed into each other. She was ready to kill him yet he wasn't ready to fight her. She went at him as he looked at the sword glow and slam even harder to his. It was like he was trying to fight off the weight of the whole world as she pushed her sword at him.

"You have to listen to me!" he cried out as she pushed harder and he had to dislodge his sword and move out of her swing.

"Silence!" she roared at him.

"Your Sons aren't dead!" he yelled at her but she still came at him. He moved out of the way again as her sword found another tree.

"Lies!" she yelled as Sasuke spun to the side as she lung foreword out of the moment. Sasuke held his sword up in defense.

"Your two sons ARE alive!" he yelled at her as they clashed swords again.

"Lies! Lies! All of them! You killed my Family!" she Yelled at his as she physically slammed into him knocking the breath out of him. The wound in his chest threw shots of pain all over his body as he grabbed on to his chest. " And for what! Power?" she demeaned as Sasuke could taste blood in his mouth. Her eyes narrowed and her eyes were bright red. " You destroyed my family and left their ruins for only me and Madara to find."

"Madara.." hissed Sasuke. He hadn't notice that she mention of the name he hated most would make him angry enough to lash out at his mother. He growled loudly and swung violently at her as she moved rather stunned. You could see in her crimson eyes that she had not expected that reaction. " That traitor is the one you should be hunting!" he hissed at her.

"I will not let you insult my family Demon!" she yelled at him.

"To hell with your family if you count him as family!" he hissed angrily as he attacked her. He was furious at the fact that his mother was protecting the killer of his father. He was furious that she wouldn't listen to him but above all he was furious that he couldn't reach her. The blind fury that was leading him also led her. She came at him and their swords danced as they went at each other. Clash after clash the sword meet in a twisting dance. Their masters so lost in their own attacks they didn't pay attention the damaged they where causing.

The sky thundered loudly each time they came in contact. Sasuke was defending his self as his mother slash the side of his cheek. He didn't even feel it as he pushed her back with his sword. He tried to unarm her but she was faster then he had anticipated and dodged the attack. She put her sword in front of her and pulled back. Sasuke followed through and went at her. She then pulled her sword back and stretched out her free hand in front of her. Before he could stop, she blasted him back sending him flying several feet. He slammed into a tree as he coughed out blood.

He hadn't really realize how badly injured he was. His adrenaline was what kept him on his feet but now that he was hurting every nerve ending felt like it was one fire. His back burned with pain as the wound on his chest made it hard to breath. The blood kept coming to his mouth as he spit it out. He was taking things too easy and it was costing him. He looked at his mother come at him as he moved in time as she stab her sword on the tree he was resting on. He brought up his sword to block her as she swiped at him twice. He tripped on a root and stumbled slightly as the sword clipped his should.

He growled as he was losing his head. He couldn't keep holding back like he had when he started the fight. It was getting harder to fight the instinct to fight back. It was when she slice part of his arm that he lost that ability. He responded on anger and lashed out at his mother. His sword went from defending to attacking is such short notice that his mother stumbled back. She could see how his eyes began to become vivid red as he lashed at her. She dodged his swings as she found her balance and tried to block an on coming swing to her neck.

Something about his fighting had change she noticed as he went at her like a starving man would at food. She could see one of his arms had that earlier had become useless now hung from his body like a rag but he didn't seem to feel anything as he came at her. His ebony sword gleamed even if it was completely black. She hadn't been aware that he had been holding back that whole time as she looked at his ragged form. He was bleeding from all the scratches from the wound on his chest but he was still standing. The pain from the diamond sword should've had him on his knees in agony.

It would've killed any demon to be wounded so much but this one kept coming. It was like he didn't care if he had to die to stop her. She swung her sword just in time to stab him again in the same place she had stabbed the ebony blade. It seems time seem to stop as he looked down to see the sword as she looked at it too. She twisted it to make sure that it hurt him. She wanted him to feel the pain she felt to see her family dead. She wanted to feel that hollow ach that he had failed to protect the people he cares about most.

She wanted him to feel as horrible as she did. She could see blood coming down his chest and she relished the moment. She felt the wind blast right past her as she pulled the sword back to look at the face for her family's murder. He stubbed back slightly as he grabbed onto his wound, most of his hair was covering his face as he dropped his sword. He dropped to one knee and spit out more blood. She walked up to him and pointed the sword at his face. He didn't move as he still coughed out blood.

Taking her sword she lifted his head just so she could see the eyes of the demon who head she would place in a spike. Half of his face was painted with blood and his breathing was labored. His ebony eyes looked at her with sorrow and small traces of fear.

"Sasuke..." she muttered as she looked at him. The sight of him scared her so much that she dropped the sword and stumbled back. She shook her head trying to clear away the image but it refused to leave her. She was so horrified at what she was seeing that she put her hand to her mouth trying to cover her strange sounds. He looked just like Sasuke expect that his hair was much longer and he looked a lot older. He couldn't seem to keep his balance any longer and fell on his side. His body was marred with wounds and blood. He looked extremely pale and almost ghost like.

His blood mixed with the dirt on his face making him look like a animal that had rolled around in the dirt. He was dirty and damaged but most of all he seem to be in pain. " Demon trickery..." she hissed as she couldn't stop herself from crying. She knew that he was not her son, her son had died with the rest of her family. He was only doing this to spear his own life. She would not be fooled by this demon. Taking back her courage she stubbornly brushed back her tears. She would have no mercy for this demon that dared to mock her pain. She would kill him mercilessly like he had butchered her family.

Her little boy had died at the hands of this demons. It was only be fair that he died to the most horrible of deaths in her hands. She grabbed her sword from the floor and advanced him. He wasn't moving and his breath was shallow at best. She kicked his sword away from his reach as she looked down at him.

He murdered her family.

He murdered her baby.

She pointed her sword at his head as she took the handle with both hands. The tip of the blade was a mixture of red and white as she pulled it over her head. She could see the ruby red blood drop all the way down to his face. She would feel no mercy for this demon that dared use her sons face. She felt nothing but disgust as she brought down her sword as hard as she could.

"Mikoto!" Some yelled out as she got thrown off her feet and onto the ground. She was taken by surprise by the sudden attack that she didn't realize someone else had appeared.

"Minato." she hissed as she saw the blond demon standing in front of the imposter.

" What are you doing? That's your son!" he hissed at her.

"I won't believe a word a filthy word that a demon speaks!" She hissed at him as she got up and brushed off the dirt.

" Mikoto, look at him! A demon can't do magic when they're that damaged!" He yelled as she glared at him. She wouldn't believe a word he said.

" I'm done talking Minato."

"Then listen to me." came a voice she didn't expect as a small flame appeared before both of them. It glowed brightly then formed itself into a human form. He was transparent and somewhat fading as he looked over to Mikoto.

"Fugaku." she muttered as she stumbled back. She knew this wasn't trickery. A soul like Fugaku had to chose to be there in order to be summoned.

"Wife, what are you doing?" he asked with a small smile. She couldn't stop the tears from falling from her face as she looked at him. " I'm sorry to have left you like this." he told her as he floated gently over to her. She could feel the warmth of his flame as he approached. " But you have to believe Minato, That boy is our son." he told her

"But I saw..." she started

"What you saw was a betrayal of the highest." he told her as she looked at him. " We were betrayed yes, but not by the demons, but my own brother. " he told as she took in the news. " He brainwashed the human guards into believing that he would make them stronger in return of killing the whole family when we slept. But their plans we a stray due to our sons stubbornness to stay awake. Sasuke and Itachi couldn't save me but they did save you. In the end Sasuke form manifested out of anger and became the Ebony dragon." He said as he looked over to were Sasuke was resting. He was so battered and bruised it was hard to tell that he just passed out of blood lose and that he wasn't dead.

"Sasuke..." his mother muttered as she looked at the man on floor.

" He's only resting you didn't kill him." Fugaku assured her. As she looked really pale then as she dropped to the ground. She landed on her bum and looked at Faugaku. " Why couldn't I..." she started

"It was a curse my brother placed on both of them so that you couldn't find them. It was a trump card he used to find Sasuke along with his mate."

"Mate?" she asked even more shook.

"Shes at the castle right now." informed Minato

"My brother tried to take Sasukes body when they were fighting for your life. Sasuke ripped a part of Mardara's soul and attached it to a little girl that grow up to be his mate. That girl is now the only one that our son will heal to. She is very valuable to Madara since her soul has merged with his. Madara has taken over Itachi's body in plans to take Sasuke's body. "

"But I saw Madara..." she stated

"You saw Itachi and mistake him for Madara." He stated "Both boys were placed under a glamour curse a very strong one so that you wouldn't know it was them when you woke up. You been tricked into believing a lie Mikoto." He told her as her eyes started to dim down to their normal color. " Our boys are alive Mikoto." he told her as he tried to touch her but his hand phased though her.

She looked like she was so lost at everything happen around her as her eyes focused on Sasuke. She had beaten him like there was no tomorrow, she had stabbed him from crying out loud not once but twice! She tried to move over to were Sasuke was as Fugaku moved slightly in her way. " He's very temperamental he won't let you touch him." He warned as she looked over to him with worry.

" But..." she cut her eyes over to the wounds in Sasuke's body.

"Flesh wounds, he just doesn't like to be touched when he's bleeding like that." He pointed out as Minato was trying to heal him but Sasuke kept growling each time he would come too close. Minato looked puzzled for a moment before he just punched him in the head and Sasuke Passed out. Mikoto glowed at Minato who looked over to her with the look of 'really?' as he went back to work on Sasuke. He closed up some wounds but not all of them would close properly. It was most likely that they were caused by diamond. He needed to take Sasuke up to the castle were they could fix him properly. His patch jobs would hold only so long.

"Sorry to cut this reunion short but we need to take him up to the castle and I can't flash with him in this state. His magic would mess with mine and we might end up in the icecaps with the penguin demons.

"Penguins aren't demons." pointed out Mikoto

"That's what you think." muttered Minato darkly as he picked up Sasuke and Mikoto walked over to his other side. Together they picked up him off the floor and walked over to the gates.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ Else where ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Those assassins should've been back by now." hissed an elder man. He sat in a circle with the rest of the elders. " we must have the sword back!" he yelled at Hiro who looked like he could kill.

"Then you old farts can stop waiting." Came Tenten's voice from the shadows. They all looked around to see were she was hiding. She was standing by a wall with her arms closed. " Hi." she smiled at them as they got to their feet.

"Guards!" yelled Hiro.

"Don't bother." came Ino's voice directly behind them as they looked over to her. They looked terrified as they kept looking form on to another expecting more. " we've come to settle our agreement." Ino told them.

"You violated your agreement when you took that sword!" yelled Hiro.

" And you stole from the demon prince. " Came Shikamaru's voice as he materialized out of the shadows like he was never there. " That's capital punishment in our laws. That means death friend." he told him calmly as he walked over to the group who seem to fear him now as they huddled together. " As an Ebony guard I can't let you live." he told them as they huddled together around Hiro.

Hiro looked pale as a ghost as he looked at Shikamaru's eyes turned completely ebony. The two white slashes appeared in dark pools of ebony as he put his hand to his sword. "but that is not my judgment. If the prince wished to let you live then so be it otherwise I will enjoy ripping you apart." he told them with a wicked smile.

"I don't fear you demon!" hissed Hiro as Shikamaru looked over to him. In a split second he had him by the throat.

"Arrogance will get you no were old man." he told him as he picked him off the floor. " I say we take this one." he told the girls as Ino and Tenten seem to agree with the idea.

"Seal him." ordered Ino as Shikarmau smiled. Hiro looked horrified at the order. Shikamaru started to glow a light green as he looked at Hiro in the eyes.

" You'll walk to the royal palace regardless of pain, regardless of thought, you will keep walking until the prince pardons you or kills you. No one but the prince can break this curse I place on you now. " Shikamaru spoke as his hand seem to burn into Hiro's neck. It looked red and painful but Hiro didn't yelled out at all. His eyes were glazed over as Shikamaru place him down.

"As for the rest of you," stated Tenten. " You will dispended the elders or suffer a worst fate then your leader."

"The bounties on our head will be dropped." Ordered Ino as she walked over to them. She stood tall as she went at them. " And you will abolish any laws about Demon and humans bonding is that understood?" Asked Ino as they all looked over to were Hiro was once stood and found that he was walking straight into a wall over and over again.

"Yes, understood." muttered one of the men that had been complaining to Hiro earlier.

"If we hear any different I will personally come back to kill you all." Tenten told them in spine chilling voice as they all nodded.

"Good, and don't worry about calling back the assassins." said Tenten with a wicked smile that made Shiakamaru's seem kind. " They won't come back." She said as all three some to be consumed by shadows before they disappeared like they where never there. They looked over to Hiro to find that he some how found the stairs and was on his way out. They were so horrified that no one tried to stop him.

~~~~~~~~~Else where~~~~~~~

"That was good acting." muttered Tenten as she looked at Hiro walk down the street.

"I wasn't acting." Said Shikamura as both girls looked over to him.

"You weren't?"

" As a gaurd of ebony It's my job to make sure that the prince is protected at all times. If something is stolen from him as a guard it is my duty to retrieve it. Failing is not a option."

"So that's what you were doing at the edge of the village the first time we meet you." muttered Tenten

" How did you know it was there?" asked Ino

"The prince found it one night he said something about the song had chanted and now was the right time to get it back. He never mention the sword and that night he was so in tune with it that he came racing after it. We had to stop him from coming into this village so he stayed at the outskirts as we scouted were the sword would be at and who would be receiving it. As our luck would have it the prince got spotted by that women and our whole plan went down the drain. We had to pull out then Neji spotted you hunters coming and the women refused to leave the prince's side. Then the prince got all funny and ran off back to the castle leaving us to clean up the mess and thats how we meet you."

"I wonder what spooked the prince?" asked Ino as Tenten smiled.

"I can give you a couple of guess." Tenten teased as Ino looked lost for a minute before she went "Oh." and got a coy smile on her lips. Shikamaru only shook his head. "Alright enough messing around we need to find lady Maya's demon. She told them as Shikamaru looked up to a mountain side.

"He's up there." he said simply as both girls looked over to were he was looking at.

" It seem like we climb then." Tenten said as she looked at the huge mountain.

"We climb."

~~~~~~~~~~~Else where~~~~~~~~~~

Neji didn't know why he felt uneasy about this plan but something in the back of his head told him not. He walked over to Itachi's bedside and looked at him. He really didn't want to do this but he didn't have much of a choice. Bring his hand down on top of his chest he closed his eyes. It wouldn't be hard to find Itachi in his own body. He felt the connection instantly as he jerked back. Bringing his claw to his palm he cut a gash letting the blood flow freely. The blood shifted and moved until it became the shape of a man.

Neji looked like he was stuck in trance as he brought up his hand to the man's faceless body. He shot it just like he had Lady Maya and the man gasped loudly as Neji Staggered back. No one really expected the clone to be screaming as it appeared.

"What's going on?" asked Naruto as he and Gaara moved over to see what was the matter. Sakura looked transfixed at the clone. Something had gone wrong. Everything happen so fast that it almost seem impossible. The clone looked over to Sakura almost like her presence demanded it.

"Run Sakura!" he yelled at her as the blood clone exploded and both Naruto and Gaara appeared before her. Itachi's body gave out a yell so strangled it soundly like he was killing himself. He kept throwing huge power waves that pushed the demons back each time they hit. Sakura seem to be the only one that wasn't affected as she looked at Itachi's body thrash about. She felt a chill got up her spine as she watched. Then almost instantly something zoomed out of Itachi's body. No one in the room had time to think as the strange orb that came out of Itachi's body slammed into Sakura's. The impact was so strong that she slammed into the wall behind her. The waves of power dimmed as Gaara got up and looked over to Itachi who's mind had gone blank. Neji was trying to get himself off the floor while Naruto stood up beside him. Kisame Got pushed out of the chair he had been sitting at as he pulled himself up.

"What the hell happen?" asked Naruto as he looked at some of the blood that landed on him from the blood clone.

"I have no idea." muttered Gaara as he looked over to Itachi.

"Sakura!" yelled Naruto as he noticed that she had gotten up as well. " Are you alright?" he asked as he checked her. She didn't say a word as most of face was covered by her hair. Naruto was about to walk over to her when Gaara grabbed hold of him.

"Naruto..." he hissed as he looked over to Sakura. Naruto looked over to Gaara as he looked troubled and then over to Sakura.

"Why didn't you let the stupid boy come Demon?" came Sakura's voice but it was sinister. She gave off a different air then before it was dark chilling. Then she lifted her face to let her hair fall back. " I would have loved to kill the stupid boy." she confessed as she opened her eyes and two blood red eyes looked at them.

"Sakura?" Asked Naruto in fear.

"Not any more, stupid boy."

SOOOO SORRRY I updated the wrong chapter! I gave you then non corrected one so I do apologizes for that.