A/N: ok ok ok, i can explain, the update took so long because 1) i am lazy, 2) christmas holidays i spent the entire time at 2 different friend's houses, and 3) i had this chapter halfway typed up days ago but the same night the video card went out on that computer so now i'm using a different one and i lost all my files on that one until we can salvage the hardrive.

fun.

well, enjoy.

Ducking down right at the perfect time saved Fugaku from what could have been an untimely death. Feeling the very claws on the wolf's paws tear through the fabric of his shirt and barely sliced into the skin of his back.

When he sensed the beast land on the other side of him, he quickly straightened himself up.

Bad mistake.

The blood froze in his veins when he saw what Ika had in store for him.

Seven to eight smaller, but starved wolves were now encircling him, saliva dripping from their muzzles and their sickly growls. But the worst thing about these creatures was their eyes………it was almost as if their eyes were empty sockets, replaced by glowing tainted yellow orbs, watching his every move, his every twitch, his every breath.

The clan leader had seen firsthand before what a pack this large could accomplish in seconds, but there was one trick to it.

If you don't move, they won't attack.

Hopefully the same rules for wild wolves also counted for summoned ones such as these. Keeping his breaths slow and shallow, he did all he could to stay completely still, sweat pouring from his forehead as the sun beat down on him.

The minutes felt like hours, they never paused, never went away, just encircled him as if they could already imagine how tasty human flesh was, but heck it probably wouldn't be the first time they've ever tasted it before.

Resisting the urge to move, to run, to jump from dangers way and get gone, the head of the Uchiha clan strained to keep him fingers from twitching if he could help it.

POOF

The monsters were gone followed by a stream of smoke; Ika's chakra pool wasn't large enough to support that jutsu for too long. Fugaku looked to his right to see to glowing eyes glaring at him from the bushes.

In an instant whatever it was came straight for him in a head-on attack, taking advantage of the old man's being tired from the wait with the wolves, the head wolf of the Ookami clan took a well hidden dagger from his belt and clutched it tightly in his hand as he prepared for his assault.

But the Uchiha was too quick and met to block him with a kunai, the split second they were only inches apart blood splattered on both men and a shrill squeal of agonizing pain rang in their ears, leaving both to guess who it came from.

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Amaris and Sasuke had slowly made their way up the stairs to get a good look at the arena, with his pet's injuries it made it very difficult for her, but the youngest of the Uchiha family just coaxed and lead her every step of the way.

whine

The white beast just wanted to rest, the staircase proving to best her.

"Come on Ammy, we need to get to the top before the battle is over" he urged, tugging at her harness, but she wouldn't budge.

"Outoto, what are you still doing down here?" said Itachi as he was instantly behind his little brother, his sudden appearance unnerving both the boy and his canine companion.

"She won't go up the stairs" he mumbled, fumbling the leash behind his back between embarrassed fingers.

"sigh come on Sasuke, get on up there" he ordered him before picking the white beast up and carrying her the rest of the way, sure she was heavier than he expected but he still beat his brother to the top of the stairs.

When the raven-haired boy reached the side of the railing and looked down a lump caught in his throat. His father was surrounded by demon wolves…………

Feeling his pet come instinctively to his side, Sasuke used her back as a brace to help him get a better view of what was going on.

He could feel how nervous Amaris was; she was quiet and still, not even panting in this heat, watching intently at the fight at hand.

He only felt her breath again through his feet when the smoke showing that the jutsu was over rose up into the wind, but she started shifting uncomfortably when Ika ran out from his hiding place in the bushes, the next thing Sasuke knew his stand was gone and he fell to the ground, the next thing her heard was a loud and terrible cry of pain.